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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. 85% of the flood damage done recently in the Western US was caused by atmospheric rivers.
</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/04/atmospheric-rivers-caused-percent-wests-recent-flood-damage/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/04/atmospheric-rivers-caused-percent-wests-recent-flood-damage/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The atmosphere holds about 7% more water vapor with every 1C rise in average temperature.
</span><a href="https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/atmospheric-moisture-increase"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/atmospheric-moisture-increase</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> The extra moisture
tends to collect in atmospheric rivers. About 3-5 are active at any given time under current conditions.
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. 40% of US energy and 75% of the electricity go to buildings. Experiments are underway in Chattanooga, TN, and Roanoke, VA, to lower energy consumption in public buildings 30% by 2030. In Roanoke, energy has been cut by 23%
already, saving the city $400,000 yearly. </span><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/05/studies-in-chattanooga-roanoke-could-help-slash-energy-usage-in-homes-buildings/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=9476100e2b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-9476100e2b-331994013"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/05/studies-in-chattanooga-roanoke-could-help-slash-energy-usage-in-homes-buildings/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=9476100e2b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-9476100e2b-331994013</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. With energy demand flat—if utilities were doing their job in promoting efficiency, declining—and coal plants aging, the obvious choice is to turn to renewables.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2019/12/06/new-video-big-utilities-pivot-to-renewables/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2019/12/06/new-video-big-utilities-pivot-to-renewables/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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</span>modeled<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on those in cigarette ads. Graphic images and variety in the labels improves their effectiveness.
</span></font><a href="https://grist.org/article/heres-what-it-would-look-like-if-fossil-fuel-ads-had-warning-labels/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://grist.org/article/heres-what-it-would-look-like-if-fossil-fuel-ads-had-warning-labels/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily</span></a><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-size: 12pt;"></span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. Texas is becoming a world nuisance by supporting fossil fuel development, even at the cost of its own environment, and suppressing those who warn of the consequences.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/07/texas-permian-basin-shale-climate-crisis">
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/07/texas-permian-basin-shale-climate-crisis</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. The Montreal Protocol was devised to control the loss of our ozone shield through diminishing our emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Since CFCs are also powerful greenhouse gasses, an unintended side effect has been to
reduce the heating of the planet by about 1C as of the middle of this century. We have also postponed a significant portion of sea level rise. Now we need an even more effective second act.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-12-ozone-layer-global.html">https://phys.org/news/2019-12-ozone-layer-global.html</a></span></p>
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