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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. Florida property insurance is going up. Reinsurance is beginning to respond to the climate crisis.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Weather changes attendant on climate change have reduced global agricultural productivity growth 21% since 1961.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The review, including its title, seems to confuse productivity loss and diminution of productivity growth. It is 21% of the potential growth which we have lost. We are going to have to dance all the harder to keep the accelerating
beat. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01000-1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01000-1</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. Meltwater from Eurasian and North American ice sheets was behind much of a 60 foot rise in sea level 14,600 years ago. We have gotten much better at fingerprinting the source of past sea level rise.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. Lithium-ion batteries are good at short-term energy storage, but to handle grid-size applications requiring days of storage we need new (and cheap) long duration energy storage systems. Several possibilities are under exploration.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2021/04/02/learn-this-acronym-ldes-long-duration-energy-storage/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2021/04/02/learn-this-acronym-ldes-long-duration-energy-storage/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>President Biden’s infrastructure proposal would address power and transportation issues. It is a promising beginning.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-04-biden-infrastructure-climate-crisis.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2021-04-biden-infrastructure-climate-crisis.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. A record 260 GW of new renewable energy was added globally in 2020, 80% of new capacity.
</span><a href="https://renews.biz/67691/record-260gw-of-clean-power-added-in-2020/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://renews.biz/67691/record-260gw-of-clean-power-added-in-2020/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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