Experts told the G20 meeting that those countries need to spend 75 billion dollars over 5 years to prepare to confront future pandemics.

Meteorologists believed that the recent northwest heat wave was impossible. Global heating is having effects far worse than expected.

For the short term we must prepare to cope with such heatwaves. But that path does not lead to survival in the long term if we fail to curb global heating. Each additional degree of extreme heat locally will require a lot more work to cope with. And since local extreme heat could hit any locality, we will need to build up these precautions everywhere. We don't even know what will be sufficient, ten years from now.

How do we prepare for the danger of a regional power outage that may occur while the weather outside is fatal in an hour? Should we give build for each building an underground shelter deep enough to keep people safe from fever for days? That would be a new twist on the Cold War.

And how will human beings put out wildfires in fatal weather? That work has to be done outside. Will firefighters have to wear cooling suits?

We could do lots of things like that, in the wealthy countries, one for each aspect of the harm done by global heating. But it is a foolish approach. If you think curbing global heating is "expensive," you don't understand how expensive it will be to compensate for failing to do so. Indeed, we won't be able to compensate for more than a few decades. Curbing global heating will be much cheaper and give far better results.

*How the BBC let climate deniers walk all over it.*

*[The Tories'] police bill risks criminalizing homeless people, warn UK charities.*

It looks like this proposed law is meant to spread repression against the non-rich, non-powerful in all possible directions at once.

Big banks must exclude "investments" that destroy the Amazon forest.