*New Zealand plan to halve greenhouse gases criticised as an "accounting trick". *

It also depends on supposed "carbon offsets" that are not reliable.

Sanders is still fighting to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices ,

as the national medical services of more civilized countries do. He faces opposition from plutocratist Democrats as well as from (plutocratist and then some) Republicans.

The jury in Majid Khan's pseudo-trial condemned the torture he experienced and called for him to receive clemency.

Allowing Majid Khan to testify about how the US tortured him served the cause of justice, but prosecuting him based on a confession that was tortured out of him is a dangerous precedent. Under the usual rules of the US legal system, his confession should have been considered inadmissable, the case against him should have been dropped, and he should have been released.

The US and other main historical greenhouse gas smitters spend more on keeping migrants out than they spend on helping poor countries deal with global heating effects

that drive people to leave.

The Archbishop of Canterbury presented clearly how much is at stake when political leaders decide how hard to push to curb global heating: inadequate effort could result in a much bigger genocide than the one Hitler launched.

Apparently some criticized this statement as disrespectful to Jews, and he apologized for the alleged disrespect. This criticism puzzles me, because I don't see any disrespect in his words. They seem entirely valid to me as a statement of the danger that we face. What are you going to compare the biggest genocide of all time with, other than the biggest known genocide of the past?

I think that 6 billion deaths from climate mayhem is plausible. Of course, that's just handwaving -- we can't know enough to make more than a rough estimate. If we take effective action and are lucky, perhaps only a few hundred million will die from climate disorder. If we run into surprise positive feedbacks, all 7-8 billion humans could die from climate disorder. All depends on how effectively we curb global heating.