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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">1. It’s hot in the Antarctic, which is in its winter. Sea ice is decreasing rapidly; ice sheet melting is expected to increase. The resulting increase of sea level is
hard to specify. </span><a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">2. The EPA is initiating a series of phasedowns on the use of HFCs to cool buildings. The impact will be to avoid .5C of heating by the end of the century.
</span><a href="https://www.environmentalleader.com/2023/07/epa-continues-phasedown-of-super-polluting-hfcs/?utm_source=E%2B+E+Leader+Newsletter&utm_campaign=517a553175-NL_7_13_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d08d9ea911-517a553175-19294371" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.environmentalleader.com/2023/07/epa-continues-phasedown-of-super-polluting-hfcs/?utm_source=E%2B+E+Leader+Newsletter&utm_campaign=517a553175-NL_7_13_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d08d9ea911-517a553175-19294371</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">3. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory offers a grant plan to provide expert assistance to communities interested in developing renewable energy. One of the initial
Clean Energy to Communities Expert Match projects is with the Black Farmers’ Collaborative in Bealsville, FL.
</span><a href="https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2023/nrel-partners-with-black-farmers-collaborative-to-plan-solar-panels-for-florida-farms-and-churches.html" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2023/nrel-partners-with-black-farmers-collaborative-to-plan-solar-panels-for-florida-farms-and-churches.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">4. RMI projects that renewable energy is now likely to provide a third of the world’s energy by 2030. “China and Europe are leading the way.” Christiana Figueres calls
for “removing the barriers to faster renewable deployment” by taking such actions as redirecting fossil fuel subsidies and streamlining permitting.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://rmi.org/press-release/renewable-energy-deployment-puts-global-power-system-on-track-for-ambitious-net-zero-pathway/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://rmi.org/press-release/renewable-energy-deployment-puts-global-power-system-on-track-for-ambitious-net-zero-pathway/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">5. Two brief videos from MSNBC, one sketching the current effects of the climate crisis on sea surface temperatures and the second interviewing Michael Mann about what
our situation looks like to a climate scientist. </span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2023/07/14/hot-ocean-is-a-chilling-vision-of-the-future/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://climatecrocks.com/2023/07/14/hot-ocean-is-a-chilling-vision-of-the-future/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">6. George Monbiot observes that as the food system approaches a state of collapse, the contrast between the wealthy and the poor increases and plutocrats resist climate
action more firmly. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown" class="ContentPasted0">
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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