WORLD MAY ALREADY BE NEAR TEMP WHERE LOSS OF GREENLAND ICE SHEET would become inevitable: UN draft report. Actual melting would take centuries, but would be unstoppable. Could raise oceans 23 feet. Additional rise from Antarctic, glaciers melting ... Still technically possible to limit global warming to 3.6*F (2*C) above pre-industrial level. But continued political delays for another decade or 2 will make that unacheivable without severe econ disruption. Temp up 1.5*F so far. Continued rapid growth of GHG emissions could cause up to 8*F rise. That would cause mass extinction of plants, animals; huge shortfalls in food production, extreme coastal flooding, more. (Why are we willing to risk world disaster, pards? Don't we err on the side of safety?) ... '70-'00 global GHG emissions grew 1.3%/yr. '00-'10 - 2.2%. Pace seems accelerating further this decade ... Greenland, W Antarctic ice sheets' melt more than doubled in last 5 years. To contribute far more to sea rise than current projections ... Over 500 bubbling methane vents found on seafloor off US east coast. Est. 30K such vents worldwide. Adds to global warming ... UN report did find efforts to counter global warming gathering force at regional, local levels in many countries ... Just 1 in 9 of UK citizens aware of scientific consensus of global warming, climate change: poll. (Way to go, fossil fuel industry PR magicians. Way to go.) ... ISIS seems to have been beaten back after another attempt to capture Iraq's largest refinery at Baija ... US judge threw out court order over Kurd oil tanker. OK'd to unload in TX ... Rosneft got loan from Russia bank to help them through sanctions. Still needs more to pay debts. Lukoil also got loan ... Environmentalist candidate surging ahead in Brazil presidential election polling ... 20 types of coral listed by US as threatened, partly because of global warming, climate change. 66 considered. 2 were already listed ... 631% July surge in China EVs made (over 4K): KNDI ... First Solar (FSLR) developing 250Mw of projects in Japan ... Alaska referendum upheld tax system for oil comps. Barely ... Elevated mercury levels in food distort songbirds' calls: research. (Veritable canary in the coal mine.) ... Investment in UK's distributed power gen market will fall to $939M by '19 from $2.5B in '13: Global Data. Excessive, overlapping new policies expected to create chaos in UK's solar PV market in particular. But installed distributed power gen capacity still to grow to over 7Gw by '19 from 3.7Gw in '13 ... Global investments in new clean power to total $1.61T from now through '20: IEA. Avg. $230B/yr. Clean/renewable power (sans nuclear) to reach ~26% of global power gen from ~22% now ... Myanmar solar jumpstart with $480M ACO Investment (US) pact. 2 150Mw projects online in '16 ... Shell calling it quits in Nigeria. Selling to local parties ... Chile, US to continue collaboration on navy biofuels research ... Noble Energy found 40-60M BOE from initial well in deepwater Gulf of Mex. Another appraisal well found 65-100M BOE reservoir ... Mineworkers' strike authorized at 1 of world's largest uranium mines (in Canada). 15% of global supply. U prices up 10% in Aug., now $31/lb ... Crystal Solar, NREL teaming up to cut costs of making silicon solar cells ... India's solar push drafting army, public sector. Grants for using local content ... Panasonic, 3 other comps picked to run Japan energy saving plan. To install 14K residential energy management systems. To run through '16 ... Hangzhou First PV to raise $265M in Singapore IPO ... Enrich Energy OK'd for 60Mw solar project in India ... Australia review panel to halt RET for small clean power projects, new large projects. (What the hell is their problem? Hit with the fossil fuel crazy stick?) ... Brazil hit 5Gw wind power capacity.