*Hong Kong police arrest editorial writer at Apple Daily newspaper.*

The EU has accustomed itself to the absence of the UK, and may have been strengthened by it.

It still has grave problems: its government has only a little democracy, and it gives the Euro banksters the power to crush countries such as Greece and Italy that fall into unpayable debt.

Some geoengineering schemes could capture large amounts of already-emitted CO2.

These schemes, if they work, could compensate for all the effects of releasing CO2, by removing that CO2. Running them extra could compensate for the methane we have released.

Concerns about "playing god" are foolish. That idea is valid only insofar as it reminds us that these schemes could have risks we won't foresee. Alas, what we are already doing has enormous risks that we have already foreseen.

We may need to uses megasystems to sequester CO2. However, I am concerned that we will adopt this as an easy substitute for reducing emissions. Fossil fuel companies will say, "Let's continue to extract and burn all the fossil fuels — and sequester all the CO2 with olivine and kelp forests."

That would be risky: if the scheme works for a while, that does not mean it will work without limits. We had better play it safe with our planet: first, make firm arrangements to cease the dangerous and destructive practices, thus limiting the damage we will do; then fix the damage we will not have avoided.

As for the schemes that would only cool the Earth, they don't try to address the danger of ocean acidification by the emitted CO2, which could kill all coral, all molluscs, and maybe all crustacians (I don't remember), because they could not make their shells. Some research suggest that high levels of CO2 would change some other animals' behavior, making them rash, so they would get eaten. Local cooling to prevent escape of methane might be useful. It would be much smaller and thus less risky than trying to cool the whole surface of the Earth.

The US endorsed the validity of the Peruvian election.

This is definitively better than the US used to act.

Buffalo, New York, has elected a socialist mayor.

She plans to reduce the opportunities for brutality by the city's thug department, and to redefine "public safety" in a broader way.