The head of CNN ostensibly resigned because his vice president was discovered to be his lover, but arguably that was just an excuse, to avoid talking about the things that were really damaging, as well as decreasing viewer numbers.

The article attacks Jeffrey Toobin with weasel words

that will be taken to mean A but, when challenged, will be defended as meaning B. I have no opinion of Toobin's journalism since I have not read or seen it, but this is the wrong way to criticize anyone.

Global heating is not the only way humans are changing fire. Fire suppression and deforestation are equally important. Less of the Earth is burning now than in the past, but the fires destroy forests now, and their smoke poisons millions.

The immediate cost of today's climate mayhem in Washington State has created a move to take funds away from preventing it from getting worse.

That's a death spiral!

US food companies and fossil fuel companies have raised prices while making high profits -- they didn't need to, but they could get away with it.

Starbucks is a clear example: profits up 31%, but it plans to raise prices.

Snowden reminds us that the NSA suffers no penalty after being found to have failed to follow precautions that were designed to reduce how often it looks in its surveillance data and finds information about Americans.