IF WORLD CONTINUES TO RELY HEAVILY ON FOSSIL FUELS, GLOBAL TEMPS COULD RISE AVG 11*F/ ~6*C BY 2100. (Pretty dang challenging, especially if population grows to over 10B+) .... Glaciers near Mt Everest could lose 99% of volume by 2100 from global warming climate change .... US needs to strengthen fed, state policies to meet '25 emissions target: report .... Wind, solar 100% of new US power gen cap in April. 511Mw wind, 50Mw solar. Wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower together 84% of 1.9Gw of new powgencap 1st 4 months of '15. 1.17Gw wind, 362Mw solar, 45Mw geo, 21Mw hydro. 302 Mw natgas added .... Clean/renewable power 17.8% of global grid cap in '10, 18.1% in '12. Has to be at least double that by '30 to meet targets. At least $1T/yr investment needed .... Geoengineering may be needed to save coral reefs from warming oceans: study .... Major insurance comp plans to dump fossil fuel holdings .... At least 22 oil comps - $33B of assets, 240Kb/d production - in financial distress. 1/2 in US, Canada .... Iran slashing fuel subsidies .... Managers of large investment funds urge nations to cut GHG emissions .... Pacific Island nations to get $450M from Japan to prepare for global warming climate change .... Road to/from N Slope Alaska oil fields crippled by flood waters .... US oil use fell 8.5% '05-'14 .... Of 523 coal power plants in US, 190 have recently closed or planned to .... Global nuke powergen peaked in '06 .... Wind now China's #3 powgen source after coal, hydro .... Solar now fastest growing power source globally .... Hydro 16% of world powergen .... Wind power near 370Gw installed globally in ~90 countries .... Car fleets now plateaud or shrinking in most major markets .... NOAA predicting quieter Atlantic hurricane season, more active Pacific.