An unusually high tide nearly flooded parts of London. The tide itself comes on top of sea-level rise.

Tides are not likely to change much in the next few million years, but our greenhouse gases are pushing sea-level rise. In a few centuries, much of London will be permanently inundated.

In a blow to the traditional rights of Englishpeople, a UK court approved of general warrants allowing the state to snoop on broad classes of people.

US citizens: Support the Congressional Progressive Caucus proposal for curbing global heating.

US citizens: call on Obama to bar fossil fuel extraction near Western national parks and in Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.

US citizens: call for providing the needed resources to protect unaccompanied migrant minors from traffickers.