GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE CAN BE SINGLED OUT AS FACTOR IN SOME EPISODES OF EXTREME WEATHER: STUDY

Oregon governor signed bill raising state's clean/renewable power mandate to 50%, ending reliance on coal power.

Siemens to build onshore wind turbine blade factory in Morocco. Online in '17.

NREL, 8 other US national labs to help 1st group of small bizzes to advance clean energy products. Up to $20M for each biz.

New Poland govt under fire for crackdown on wind power expansion.

Iran Feb oil exports up ~250Kb/d from sanction levels. March may be up ~150K more. Transactions still difficult with remaining sanctions. (Their long-range missiles relatively inaccurate.)

Oilpipe from Iraq Kurdistan to Turkey port back online last week.

ISIS expanding on Libya coast from Sirte to Sabratha, Tripoli. Brit special forces along Tunisia border.

China plan to move coal burning out of individual buildings to central locations to improve efficiency, lower emissions.

Russia announced 10% drop in military procurement because of budget probs. Moody's withdrew from rating Russian comps because of new Russian law that ratings must go through their central bank.

2 comps investing $130M for 150Mw solar in Mauritius. 10Mw 1st phase online next month.

29Mw, 6-yr-old wind farm in Spain sold for $52M.

Solar roofs, EVs OK'd in Thailand. 100Mw of solar roofs.

Protests in Taiwan to close nuke power plants.

Spencer invented microwave in '45 after chocolate in pants melted after passing by magnetron. 20 years to perfect. (How life works.)

UK-Iceland geothermal power link could be built by '23: former official.

United Airlines biofuel supply deal with Honeywell.

Brazil pairing up hydropower with floating solar.

Israel military replacing all diesel generators with solar.

India aluminum comp investing $100M in clean/ren power.

2 comps major winners in 1.2Gw India solar power tender.

$4.5M from ARPA-E for new low-cost offshore wind tech research using thunderstorm physics to harvest energy from water droplets.

UK's Faradion moving sodium-ion batt storage tech forward.

$6.8B D.C. utility merger rejected by "Office of the People's Counsel". (How long has D.C. been ruled by communists?)

LBNL making graphene energy storage for fuel cell EVs.

Up to 13M Americans at risk from sea level rise: study. (I'm betting mostly in Florida.)

FDA tentatively OK'd release of GM'd mosquitos to stem Zika.

11 US states failed to file SO2 emissions reduction plans: EPA. (Who cares enough about what we breathe? 39 states? Guess the politics of those 11 states.)

Rain barrels illegal in Colorado? (I remember giving one to a friend in Kentucky in '85.)