Biden's energy secretary reassured the organized Big Oil that the US government won't fight with them. "We're not a bogeyman...We heard you loud and clear."

That seems to explain why Biden is not listening to us.

I should explain that I am not convinced that banning oil export from the US is. itself, crucial. That ban would not reduce fossil fuel usage, nor fossil fuel demand. If there is a way it would help us prevent climate disaster, I don't see it.

On the other hand, reducing oil extraction in the US is crucial progress. The US has to push for this, not just make distant pledges to push later.

As Republicans prepare their next coup, no powerful force in the US is organizing to resist it.

All countries in the Middle East (including Iran) voted repeatedly for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, except Israel. The last time it was proposed, the only other country opposing it was the US.

This is an almost certain way to assure Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.

Decades ago, when Israel was surrounded by countries that called for attacking and destroying an outnumbered Israel, Israel needed a nuclear deterrent against that possible attack. Even though Israel won its wars against all the much bigger Arab armies, there was no guarantee that it always would. But now many of those countries have made peace with Israel. Israel may want nuclear weapons but it doesn't need them. And the US doesn't need to insist that Israel keep them.

The Arctic is heating much faster than the rest of the Earth. The record temperature recorded in the Arctic is now 38C — above human body temperature.

Somalia is being hit badly by global heating — three successive seasons have brought no rain.