Thursday, February 25, 2016

FOSSIL FUEL USE MUST DROP MUCH FASTER THAN THOUGHT TO MEET LIMITS AGREED ON AT PARIS TO CONTAIN GLOBAL WARMING.

Just 1.24T tons of GHGs can be released into atmos from '15 onward. Not the up to 2.4T of previous estimates: climate scientists. (Half.)

More aggressive climate policies could save us $1T/yr.

Clean/renewable power growth could slow over 30% without US EPA Clean Power Plan: analysis.

US House, Senate members telling appeals court Clean Power Plan illegal.

Antarctica reached record 64*F temp.

Air pollution cause of 40K deaths/yr in UK: research.

NASA, S Korea partnering on space-based air pollution studies. (Probably satellite to "watch" N Korea.)

Over 12.6Gw wind power ordered globally in 2H15: Navigant. Near 140 projects. Siemens, Vestas led with ~2.8Gw each. Europe led with 5Gw. Then N Am with 2.8Gw, Asia/Pacific with 2Gw, Latin Am with 1.3Gw.

Corals experiencing record-long bleaching from El Nino.

China adding EVs to govt fleet.

US oil shipping to Israel refineries.

Abengoa (ABGB) bioenergy unit filed bankruptcy in US.

1st US LNG ship headed for Brazil.

Comps suing Sun Edison (SUNE) over Brazil deal. Also, Vivent (VSLR) shareholders approved SUNE acquisition.

Ormat to add up to 190Mw geothermal capacity by '18.

Dairyland Power to buy 15Mw solar in Wisconsin.

Scottish Power Renewables committed to 714Mw windpower offshore E England. E2.5B. Online in '20.

El Salvador 150Mw clean/renewable power auction coming.

India plans 750Mw solar park with 100Mw power storage.

Obama banned imports of slave-produced fish, other goods.

US won WTO dispute with India over solar.

Short-term EV sales forecasted to plunge.

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