The Sahara desert is forecast to claim 30% of Spain by 2050. Also parts of Italy and other European countries.

Global heating is likely to reduce food production on land and on sea, especially in tropical countries.

Some places in Asia already have temperatures that are bad for growth of rice.

US coastal cities are getting more and bigger rainstorms already due to global heating.

The House of Representatives passed a bill to require driverless cars to have some vague sort of better security against crackers, on the reasoning that terrorists might crack them.

There's nothing wrong with that goal, but it completely ignores the much more important danger: that state agents, with the collaboration of the car manufacturer, could make the car take you to the black site of the secret police.

If driverless cars become common, they will be used in all countries, including China, Cambodia, Egypt, Turkey, and Salafi Arabia, to mention just a few in which tyrannical practices have recently been reported on here. Even if you suppose this can't happen in the US, that should matter. But if you don't think that could happen in the US, read about what the Chicago thugs did for years.

Hurricane Irma is the most powerful hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic. The troll thinks this is just great. "USA #1 in hurricanes", he will say next.

However, I think that title has to go to Haiti, which has yet to repair the damage from two disastrous hurricanes over the past decade. The people are too poor to do that, and now hundreds of thousands more could lose their homes.

A new study that combined temperature data and other data, using software rather than hand-adjustments to compensate for changes in measuring systems, has convinced some skeptics that global heating is real and due to human-caused CO2 emissions.