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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">1. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Climate Action 100+, representing over 518 institutional investing organizations globally and managing over $47tn in assets, “has demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters back
strategies to reach net-zero emissions and promised to hold them to public account.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/14/investors-worth-us47tn-demand-worlds-biggest-polluters-back-plan-for-net-zero-emissions"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/14/investors-worth-us47tn-demand-worlds-biggest-polluters-back-plan-for-net-zero-emissions</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">2. BP’s annual report judges that oil may have passed its peak demand. The central scenario of three in the report shows oil demand decreasing by 55% over the next 20 years as it is replaced by renewable energy. Part of the picture
is a forecast that the market for single-use plastics will decrease. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/global-oil-demand-may-have-passed-peak-says-bp-energy-report"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/global-oil-demand-may-have-passed-peak-says-bp-energy-report</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">3. Larvaceans are tiny sea creatures which build mucus palaces, filtering a great deal of water as they build and trapping a great deal of carbonaceous debris. When they let the palaces sink to the ocean floor these sequester
the carbon in significant amounts, as larvaceans are common in the world’s waters.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2020/09/14/cbs-mucus-palaces-sequester-carbon/"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2020/09/14/cbs-mucus-palaces-sequester-carbon/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">4. In 2017 Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers in the West Antarctic were found to be unstable. They are now slipping the remaining restraints and moving to support serious sea level rise.
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">5. The Arctic is in transition to a new climate state, with a new set of weather patterns. “The rate of change is remarkable.”
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Arctic’s new climate is characterized by open water and rain instead of ice and snow.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-warming-shifts-arctic-climate-from-ice-and-snow-to-water-and-rain/ar-BB191mUN?ocid=msedgdhp</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">The change will have great impact on the climate generally, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/14/northern-hemisphere-record-hottest-summer-noaa?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">6. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our President assures us that “It’ll start getting cooler.”
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/14/president-who-says-coronavirus-will-go-away-makes-same-prediction-about-global-warming/">
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">7. ProPublica has put together an interactive map of changing conditions expected in the US for the remainder of the century. (Not much is getting cooler.) Thanks to Ed Brock for the link.
<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/">https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/</a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">8. We are on the verge of dealing with a great movement of our population away from newly threatened areas. Thanks again to Ed Brock for this follow-up to the previous material. We need to begin planning for sustainable communities
in great numbers in the right places. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage">
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">9. Mass migrations are coming globally. <a href="https://climatenewsnetwork.net/mass-migration-set-to-increase-as-world-warms/">
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/mass-migration-set-to-increase-as-world-warms/</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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