MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT GOVT ACTION TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE: NY TIMES, STANFORD POLL. 90% of Dems, 78% of Independents, 48% of Republicans say so. 2/3rds more likely to vote for candidates who campaign on fighting GWCC, less likely to vote for those that question or deny science of human-caused GWCC. 81% believe GWCC caused at least in part by human activity .... Big gap remains between what scientists say, Americans think about GWCC. (Well, that pretty much flys in the face of that poll.) .... Recent flooding boosted Brits' belief in GWCC .... Floods just displaced 170K in Malawi .... Brazil drought bringing water supply to near zero capacity for hydropower. Driest period ever in their records. Hydropower facilities that supply Sao Paulo being deactivated. Brazil normally gets 70% of power from hydro .... Oceans' heat content literally has gone up off current NOAA charts. 90% of GW heat ends up in our oceans .... US Senate voted against windpower PTC amendment. (There you go, you dinosaur jockeys. Keep pulling the world back for money.) .... Facebook, Bank of America got onboard $1.7B Better Buildings expansion .... Farm bill squashes innovation in sustainable ag: a farmer. (More Republican work probably.) .... Iceland glaciers melting so fast parts of the island are rising .... Thursday's govt auction for wind power leases off Massachusetts drew little interest from developers. 2 of 4 parcels drew no bids at all. (One of highest wind areas in US. But deepwater expensive.) 2 comps got leases for ~$1.50/acre. (US Wind paid $109/acre for almost 80K acres offshore Maryland last year) .... 1 offshore wind project moving forward off Rhode Island. Deepwater Wind. Turbine foundations to be planted this summer. They have 3 other projects in development off New England, NJ, OR .... 4.854Gw onshore wind installed in US in '14. Total US capacity now 65.879Gw .... Tesla (TSLA) doubled its Supercharger network in UK .... US Senate bill #1 passed. Keystone XL pipe. (All I can say is, if we have to have tar sands oil, a pipe is smarter than oil trucks, oil trains.) .... Hastings-On-Hudson 1st municipality in NY region to ban single-use plastic bags AND plastic foam food containers .... Major American comps in food, bev, consumer goods sectors wasting resources, energy, money in inefficient packaging (we see that every day when we open something up), recycling practices. Missing out on over $11B /yr market. (Why the stupid recalcitrance?! Business stupid.) .... US team at World Bank pushing for Kosovo coal plant. (REALLY?!) .... Energy storage sector calling for inclusion in US Clean Power Plan compliances .... Climate change pushing fish away from Australia toward cooler waters .... Georgia Power's nuke power expansion project slipped another 18 months, adding hundreds of millions to cost. .... Lawsuit filed to block expansion of Calif crude-by-rail terminal .... Scotland temporarily banning fracking .... Shell set to confront risk GWCC may pose to its future. (2*C protocol means only 1/4 of existing fossil fuel reserves burnable.) .... China coal consumption down .4-3.5% in '14 depending on whom you believe .... UK banks behind over $500B of leveraged loans to oil/gas industry past 4 yrs .... Sun Edison (SUNE) to provide solar power for Calif schools .... Mexico to add 66Gw clean/ren power to grid next 15 yrs with $90B investment. Mexico goals 30% powgen from clean/ren by '24, 40% by '35, 50% by '50. Their fed budget for clean/ren $31.5M this year .... EPA allowing biodiesel imports from Argentina while US producers laying people off .... EDF unit started up 61.5Mw wind farm in S Africa. 1st of 3 .... Terraform Power (TERP) issued $800M, 8-yr, 5.875% junk-grade bond .... Despite 50M smart meters installed, Americans don't change power use .... Remember from '11: for every $1 of investment in cleaner power avoided by '20, $4.30 more will be needed after '20 to compensate for increased emissions. (The time is NOW, pards. Unless this world age is about to end with Jesus' return.)