PACIFIC OCEAN WAS PLANETARY AIR CONDITIONER LAST 20 YEARS. But that may end soon: study .... Most Americans see combating global warming climate change a moral duty: poll .... 130B tons Antarctic ice/yr melting into oceans .... Global warming climate change to expand Australia deserts: study .... World's largest PR firm walking away from oil/gas industry .... US banking system has $14.4T total assets. 6 largest banks have 2/3 .... New Jersey, Exxon $250M settlement in refinery pollution case. State sued for $8.9B .... Low-emission vehicle owners getting $67M help from Brit govt .... Cal Energy Commission to spend $20M to build ~50 new hydrogen fueling stations. (Hydrogen system way too inefficient. Don't buy the cars. Buy EVs with clean power charging.) .... Nordex to install 27Mw wind in France. Online early '16 .... BHE (formerly MidAmerican Renewables) finished 550Mw PV solar farm in Cal. First Solar panels. Started Nov '11. 8.4M modules on 4,700 acres (over 7 square miles by my math) .... NRG Yield to spend $41M to buy 1.4Mw Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL) project, majority stakes in 2 Invenergy wind farms (total 63Mw of farms) .... Vattenfall to build 400Mw wind off Denmark. Needs EU, Denmark parliament OKs .... Hanergy Thin Film got $660M PV equipment deal, selling 1.5M new shares .... Sun Ed (SUNE) donating $5M to train low-income workers for solar jobs .... USDA $8.7M for biofuels research .... Officials found hundreds of unpermitted oil/gas wastewater pits in Cal .... Dealers struggling to sell used EVs, hybrids .... Turbochargers help carmakers meet fuel econ standards .... Jordan, Israel deal on Red Sea to Dead Sea pipeline, desalination plant .... Onward and upward, pards. Spring/fall coming, depending on hemisphere.