300 US TROOPS ON BAGHDAD AIRPORT PERIMETER SECURITY as ISIS closes in .... Germany trying to convince Turkey, Iran to join fight against ISIS. (What's Germany doing?) .... Top Kurd militant threatening Turkey with new Kurd revolt if Turkey stays out of fight over Kobani .... India, Pakistan resumed Kashmir fighting .... Record Antarctic sea ice level: NASA .... Global warming climate change projected to cost global econ $700B/yr: Climate Vulnerability Monitor .... Release of 50B ton reservoir of methane from melting Arctic ice could by itself advance global warming 15-35 years, cost $60T to global econ: research .... Putting world on path for sustainable energy production to cost $53T: IEA. In long run, though, could save world money .... For each *C of warming, area burned in west US wildfires increases by factor of 2-4: NAS. Temps in S west up over 1*C since '70's: National Climate Assessment .... Methane hotspot at 4 Corners from local coal mining. N Am's most productive basin of coalbed methane (type of methane that sticks to coal surface) ....Massachusetts raised its solar net metering cap to 5% from 3% of grid cap for govt entities, 4% for biz .... Oil/gas industry can cut methane emissions 40% at avg. annual cost of less than $.01/KCF with available techs, practices. 40% reduction would save US econ, consumers over $100M/yr, create $164M net savings for operators .... Greece OK'd their piece of Trans-Adriatic natgas pipeline. Azerbaijan to Europe. Construction can now commence .... BG Group, Ophir discovered another 1TCF offshore Tanzania. Ophir looking at 17TCF recoverable reserves there .... New natgas discovery offshore Brazil by Petrobras consortium .... Chevron selling 30% interest in Alberta shale play to Kuwait comp for $1.5B. Est. 443TCF, 62B bls in Duvernay Formation. (That, pards, is a whopper.)