The controversy over possible future technologies for removing CO2 from the air.

I think that we should try to develop CO2 removal technology, because it will be very helpful if it does work efficiently; but it would be a terrible mistake to bet on that. Our investment now should go mainly into replacing fossil fuels.

The alcohol industry used its donations to medical research to help engineer a conclusion that a low level of drinking alcohol was a little more healthful than abstaining.

This conclusion was subtly mistaken: in fact, a certain fraction of the abstainers had decided to abstain because of some illness, and those illnesses were what made them less well than the typical light drinker.

Overextension of the crime of "terrorism" in Georgia has been used to terrorize environmentalist protesters. A similar law in Oregon may be used to do likewise.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions. After the Big Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Billionaire Polluters hired thousands of workers to clean away the oil. Now they are suing because they have a tendency toward a specific pattern of illnesses, which is likely to have been caused by contact with the oil.

BP cut corners on safety to save money at its workers' expense. Some of the workers on the drilling platform were killed in the explosion that BP didn't prevent. The cleanup workers' illnesses are an extension of that same practice.

*More than 100 Israeli and international civil society groups warn [that adopting] IHRA definition [of "antisemitism"] could curb work of UN bodies.*

US citizens: call on the Senate to investigate Sinema's apparent corruption; billionaires should not be able to buy senators or the Supreme Court.

I am unhappy that the petition uses an …OTUS abbreviation, but it's not a moral issue so I signed anyway.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!