GLOBALLY, HOTTEST 4-MONTH START OF ANY YEAR ON RECORD: NASA .... GOP working to defund studies so GOP can continue to deny global warming climate change. (It boggles even the mind of an ostrich.) .... Antarctica melting from above and below: study .... Fossil fuels have become "unwise investment": UN climate chief. Also outlined steps for Paris deal .... 30% of surveyed firms say they've already experienced impacts from climate change .... Woods Hole scientists document significant role of rivers for carbon storage .... A Canadian Native Nation turned down $1B to allow proposed LNG terminal on their land over concerns of fish habitats. (Gotta love that.) .... Latest MIT contest seeks ideas for regional climate plans around world .... Indonesia extending forest clearing moratorium. Greens say not enough .... Warming threatening tropical birds in Andes by driving snakes to higher ground .... Higher temps linked with lower math scores .... Warmer, more acidic ocean threatening coral reefs, 30% of bottom of ocean food chain: PBS .... EU approved plan to reform carbon trading system .... NY released enviro study that prompted fracking ban .... Solar met 15% of UK power demand yesterday .... KY voters backing climate science in GOP gooby primary .... Aphid "swarm" in Utah .... USDA approved 1st GMO-free label. (Yay!) Also $6.5M to help strained Ogallala aquifer .... VT legislature passed bill to clean Lake Champlain .... Solar-powered ATMs in Punjab .... El Nino almost certain to last through summer, maybe to year-end: US climate center .... ND's new oil treatment rules reduced danger in latest oil train wreck: regulator .... Brazil solar market suffering from 17% drop in Real since Nov. Yingli put assembly plant build on hold. Solar farm margins down to 7% from 12%. 10Mw solar installed in Brazil in '14 .... Acciona expanding presence in Brazil .... EIA est. US crude production from lower 48 up 16Kb/d last wk .... Cushing stocks down 900K bls last wk .... Petrochina overtook Exxon as largest energy comp in world .... Patriot Coal 2nd bankruptcy in 2 yrs .... Producers looking to revisit previously-fracked wells for cheap additional production .... Major global oil/gas discoveries at 20-yr low .... OPEC monthly report: April OPEC crude production up 18Kb/d, March revised up 39K. Predicts non-OPEC total liquids to rise 680Kb/d this year, US up 700K .... May 6 price for Canada heavy crude $52/bl, up from $30 March 17 .... Statoil setting up division for clean/renewable energy .... GA gov signed Solar Power Free Market Financing Act into law. Allows 3rd parties to install/own residential, commercial solar systems .... Global EV charging services revenues est. to total $11.3B '14-'23 .... WV PSC wants justification from Appalachian Power for closure of 3 coal-fired power plants by end of May. (I bet it might have something to do with EPA Clean Power Plan politics.) .... Duke has plan for SC solar .... German Climate Computing Center now using IBM tech to manage world's largest cache of climate simulation data.