Lula spoke at Cop27 and warned that no place on Earth is safe from climate disaster. His program for Brazil is to protect the forest.

Smoking both marijuana and tobacco is more likely to cause lung damage than tobacco alone.

*Australia told to end new fossil fuel subsidies if it wants Pacific [island nations'] support to host climate summit.*

To subsidize fossil fuels is a terrible thing for any country to do. The Labor government is much less friendly to fossil fuels than the previous right-wing government, and it has reduced the subsidy, but not reduced it to zero.

* Island countries are more vulnerable to government oppression after natural disasters — according to new research — and there are concerns that the increased frequency of weather-related events due to the climate crisis, could see the further rise of autocracies around the world.*

NATO has pretty much concluded that the missiles which hit Polish territory were Ukrainian anti-missile missiles, which were fired at a Russian missile and not at the ground where they hit.