The low price of oil may not slow adoption of renewable electric generation.

However, to avoid disaster, we must decarbonize more than just electric generation. We need to reduce the emissions of cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes, too, as well as heating of homes and buildings. The low price of oil reduces one of the incentives.

The low price encourages some oil exporters to put in renewable energy, but the fraction of oil that they use is tiny.

We should make sure the use of oil keeps decreasing, by putting a bigger tax on it.

The Democratic candidates' statements on encryption: O'Malley is bad, and Sanders is so-so, while Clinton is like a Republican (yech).

The TTIP could destroy Europe's small farms, or force them to use use GMOs and lower their quality standards.

Turkey demands to exclude Syria's Kurds from Syria's peace talks. This would be a great boost for PISSI, as well as making success impossible.

World-wide fish catches are falling fast due to overfishing.