The FCC's weak ISP privacy rules are too much for the trumpets. They plan to eliminate them.

ISPs should respect customers' privacy by not taking any note of their traffic, except pursuant to a specific court order.

China has become dominant in the manufacturing of renewable energy generation.

China is making a big investment, while its potential competitors are dominated by planet-roasters and denialists.

Now that El Niño has ended, 2017 may not set a new heat record. Denialists are likely to start spreading the myth that "global heating stopped in 2016."

Roughly 10,000 people die in London each year from air pollution, much of it from diesel engines.

The UK government attacks everyone's freedom, supposedly to reduce the already tiny danger of terrorism. But terrorists would find it exceedingly hard to kill even 1% as many people as the diesels do.

Britons should demand that the government end to massive surveillace and focus on the greater danger of cars. But this lesson is not limited to Britain.

How many thousands do diesels kill every year in France? I don't know, but it must be thousands. So why have a "state of emergency" that tramples human rights supposedly to protect against the secondary danger of terrorists, instead of against car companies?

Zineb El Rhazoui has quit working for Charlie Hebdo, rebuking the magazine for no longer daring to draw Mohammed.