Random power trips, the stuff that sticks in my head

*From the earliest temperature record keeping, the ratio of new record highs to record lows stayed about equal year in and year out.  That changed in the 1970's when record highs started showing up more often.  Now they are dominant.  In 2012 the US saw about 7 to 1 highs over lows.  Over 14,000 record breaking high temps set just last year.  In Africa it is higher than that.  It's 10 to 1.  Australia the same, with outback temps currently reaching new highs of 130°F+.  At these temperatures food crops can hardly be kept alive, and produce very little.
*California has given 2.4 billion of tax breaks to home and small business solar installations in the last 7 years and got 1 gigawatt of new energy source out of it, equal to a new nuke plant, which would have cost 6 to 9 billion, of which the state and feds would have given billions of support and tax breaks, taken 12 years and produced hot crap that has to be protected and stored for generations.
*It takes 714 lbs of coal to light a 60 watt incandescent for 1 year, only 2 hours of wind, 8 hours of solar.  Every 14 seconds (during the day) enough solar hits the US to power it for the whole day.
*The civil wars in north Africa, with muslims pushing south with fundamentalist ideals, may be misunderstood.  It may not be so much a zealot's crusade as a scramble for food, water, farmable land, it may be a global warming event as the Pentagon predicted in the last month of Bush 43's reign, that global warming will set off wars and mass migrations, starting now!