[GWSG] C emissions flat; C sinks decline; FPL buys, shuts coal plant; E.ON loses on fossils; rise in warming ahead; rerun

[Tilley, Al]

1.  The International Energy Agency reports that for the first time in the forty years of record preliminary figures show that global carbon emissions did not grow in 2014.  The IEA credits emissions control policies and observed that economic growth is obviously not tied to growth in emissions.  http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/235609-carbon-emissions-stop-growing-globally
The Guardian warns that falling oil prices may lead to further emissions increases, and points to a slowdown in the Chinese economy as a factor in the pause (or, may we hope, the plateau inviting a decline).  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/13/global-emissions-stall-in-2014-following-slowdown-in-chinas-economy



2.  The earth's carbon sinks are becoming increasingly less efficient as warming increases, making it ever more urgent to get off fossil fuels.  http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/12/3632373/carbon-sinks-climate-action/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~&elqaid=24958&elqat=1&elqTrackId=a72bcb3c8f1145b3bd3159557da0dba3



3.  Florida Power and Light, the state's largest utility, has asked for permission to buy the 250 megawatt Cedar Bay coal plant in Jacksonville so that it can shut it down to cut the costs they would incur under their power purchase agreement with the plant.  http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/12/3632518/florida-coal-plant-shutdown/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~&elqaid=24958&elqat=1&elqTrackId=e232652625394f47aa2b06adbcdf3808



4.  Germany's largest utility E.ON has suffered a record loss from dropping oil prices and energy rates as it moves away from fossil fuels.  E.ON plans to concentrate on energy management and consumer services.  http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/11/eon-reports-record-group-losses-hive-off-fossil-fuel-business-german



5.  The warming rate in the northern hemisphere is expected to rise from .4 degrees F per decade to .7 in the next decade and to continue at that rate for at least the rest of the century.  http://e360.yale.edu/digest/warming_to_sharply_increase__for_remainder_of_21st_century_paper_says/4384/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
By midcentury the coldest years will be hotter than the current record hottest years in many US cities, including San Diego, New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Orlando.  Energetic emissions controls will buy us about twenty years of postponement.  http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/research-mora-carbon-hotter-temperatures



6.  Wouldn't you like to go back and reread number one?  It might encourage people to be ambitious about energy transition plans.
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