Young people living near an Iraqi oilfield have a very high frequency of cancer, apparently due to pollution from flaring gas from the oil wells.

Two apparently Russian missiles hit Poland in the region near the Ukrainian border. NATO will probably not respond directly militarily.

Although anything Putin says is likely to include lies, it is possible that these missiles were not fired intentionally at Poland.

*Australia criticised for resisting Cop27 push to end international fossil fuel subsidies.*

*The 1.5C climate target is dead — to prevent total catastrophe, Cop27 must admit it.*

Every target will be crused by planet roasters just as this one was, until the world conclusively defeats them and renders them powerless.

*Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky.*

It is amusing to see Musk wildly change Twitter's rules and find that each change backfires worse than the previous one.

I don't care about Twitter the way many people do, because the requirements for having a Twitter account include things I won't do. And even if I did them, I couldn't afford the time it would cost me to actually use Twitter.