*Oil and Gas Giants Under Fire for Fueling Russian War on Ukraine.*

The fact that Russia's economic power (and thus, its military power) are due to selling fossil fuels is not what makes its invasion of Ukraine evil. But it is the cause of Europe's weak position vis-a-vis Russia.

But the power of the fossil fuel companies is much bigger than that of Russia. It is like ten Russias, all allied in war against the survival of civilization.

* Analysis of satellite observations show [Amazon] forest is losing stability, with "profound" [I'd say disastrous] global implications.*

*Don't let high energy prices derail UK green agenda, say climate experts.*

The same conclusion applies world-wide. Global heaing effects will cause disaster on an unprecedentd scale -- perhaps a hundred times the casualties of World War II, Predictions of numbers harmed tend to work bny adding the various forms of harm we can project into the future. They do not take account of the still-unknown ways these harms will interact.

The Manhattan District Attorney concluded that the evidence for fraud in the Trump Organization was not strong enough to bring charges against the wrecker personally.

On fighting right-wing book bans in US schools.