El Nino expected to dissolve by August. La Ninas followed El Ninos in 11 of 15 events. Historically, crop probs in N and S Am, brutally cold US winters associated with La Ninas.
Extreme tornadoes, flooding, blizzard in US over weekend.
Severe flooding in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina common border area.
Army deployed for flooding in N England.
Moscow record high temps last week. Russia warming 2.5x faster than global avg: Russian ministry. (They are mostly in Arctic, of course.)
'16 to be hottest global avg temp on record: UK Met Office.
S Africa drought already leaving 29M folks without reliable food access: UN.
Biofuels destroying wild bee habitat: U of Vermont research. (Crops grown for fuels v. bee habitat.)
Cleaner air may be helping global warming: study. (Less pollutants in atmos to reflect sunlight.)
US clean power tax credit extension could boost industry 56% next 5 yrs: analyst.
China cutting preferential rates 11% for solar, wind development.
Sauds cutting domestic subsidies for petrol products.
Costa Rica powered by 100% clean/renewables for 185 days in '15.
$250M investment fund for onshore wind in UK, Ireland.
Clean Energy Finance Corp in Australia directed to focus on innovative, emerging clean power techs.
106M euros loan for Abengoa (ABGB).
HSH Nordbank to boost clean/renewable power funding to over $1.1B.
$20M investment in 30Mw wind project in Brazil. 67 cents/w. 3Mw turbines. '16 start, '18 finish.
Enap, Mitsui to build 2 combined-cycle NG power plants in Chile. 1.3Gw total for ~$1.3B. LNG supply.
Sunpower (SPWR) finished 50Mw solar plant in Colorado for Xcel Energy.
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