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Opinion:

¶ “For China, Climate Change Is No Hoax – It’s a Business and Political Opportunity” • Chinese leaders are taking aggressive action to cut carbon emissions. Reasons go past air quality in their nation’s cities and include market share in promising export markets for green technologies and “soft power” in international relations. [DeSmog]

Shanxi wind farm (credit Hahaheditor12667, creative commons)

¶ “Leveraging Technology To Settle The Climate Change Debate” • The great irony of the climate change challenge is that the solutions humanity needs to leverage to reduce emissions at a rate necessary to avert catastrophic climate change already exist. Not only that, many of these technologies can compete on the basis of cost alone. [CleanTechnica]

Science and Technology:

¶ University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow stood before Congress in 2010 and balked on climate change. He said he wasn’t sure. He needed more evidence…