WORLD MAY HAVE TO CUT GHG EMISSIONS TO ZERO BY 2100 to save Earth, ecosystems, flora, fauna, critters and life as we know it: UN report .... Amundsen Sea portion of W. Antarctic ice sheet in process of irreversible collapse. Global sea level rise of over 3 feet from loss of this portion alone .... Avg. annual ice loss in northeast portion of Greenland ice sheet over 10B tons '06-'12. Many climate models haven't considered this area in sea level rise projections because of long-term stability .... World experienced 261 weather-related disasters in '13. Record 41 events with at least $1B damage .... In dry years, Amazon basin emits CO2 .... Peshmerga "heavily shelling" ISIS in Kobani .... US fining Hyundai, Kia combined $300M for overstating MPG .... Energy Policy Act of '05 exempted oil/gas industry from fed enforcement of Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act. (I did not know that. Washington sure is crafty. Looks like they knew something about fracking before we did. Well, states can step up. Yea, sure, states. And munis. Some are.) .... Malaysia's sustainable palm oil certification program starts in Jan .... Sunpower (SPWR) to build 160Mw/yr panel factory in S. Africa .... Abengoa (ABGB) to buy out Bright Source stake in Cal thermal solar project .... 1.05Gw solar contracts let in Brazil auction. All must go online by Oct '17 .... BluEarth raised C$81M to buy, develop hydropower, solar, wind in N. Am .... EIB consortium lending 150M Pounds for UK waste recycling, energy-from-waste plant .... Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, cement production 60% more than '90 in '13 .... Startup turning CO2 into "fish oil" .... LA upped lawn removal payout.