EARTH SHATTERED MANY CLIMATE RECORDS IN '15, INCLUDING HOTTEST EVER ON RECORD

Oxygen levels crashing in Chesapeake Bay.

Anthrax outbreak in Russia linked to climate change.

Some fish adjusting body defenses to deal with ocean acidification.

California issued 1st state EPA Clean Power Plan compliance plan.

Norway goal to become carbon neutral by '30. (Glacier National Park's glaciers to be gone by '30.)

Global solar market to install 73Gw this year. '17 to start multi-year slowdown.

Solar elgen beat out coal in UK in July.

Massachusetts legislature passed bill to contract 1.6Gw offshore wind power by '27.

NY regulators OK'd ~$.5B subsidies next 2 years for 3 nuke power plants. Focus now on same help for 2 nuke plants in Illinois.

S Africa utility placed 1st unit of 1.3Gw pumped hydro power storage project into commercial ops. Other 3 units coming online in 1H17.

First Solar (FSLR) sold 121Mw of community power plants in US.

EIB OK'd Euro72M geothermal power expansion in Kenya.

Solar Frontier opened Nagasaki's largest solar plant.

Vestas (VWDRY) got 120Mw order from Morocco.

Chev Volt sales boom in July. 2,406.

Solar City downgraded '16 guidance.

Trina Solar to go private. $1.1B.

Utah car dealers pushback on Tesla (TSLA).

Toyota delaying Prius Prime.

Arson suspected in damage to Bakken pipeline project.

Italian group to invest $450M in ethanol plant in Iran to use 1M metric tons/yr of inedible wheat feedstock. (They sure grow enough inedible wheat, yeah?)

OPEC July output down 80Kb/d.

Sinopec to sell most of NG pipeline biz to boost clean/renewable power investment.

US utilities' growth averaged 20% in 2Q.

"Artificial leaf" turns CO2 into fuel.

Australia moves north 5 feet every 20 years. 2.8"/yr.