US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to confirm Biden's nominees to the Federal Reserve Board.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

US citizens: Call the Department of Interior at 866-834-8040 and urge Secretary Haaland to accept the court's cancellation of the sale of oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

If you call, please spread the word!

Australia's three major parties received large donations from fossil fuel companies.

* Formerly rare high temperatures now covering half of seas and devastating wildlife, study shows.*

* Almost no corals on the planet will escape severe bleaching once global heating reaches 1.5C, according to a new study of the world's reefs.*

The UK approved a new oilfield in the North Sea, claiming that this does not conflict with its greenhouse gas targets.

I don't know if it is possible to prove that they conflict. Perhaps if the UK never does anything like this again, and pushes hard to reduce emissions in all other ways, it can still achieve those targets, plus the additional reductions necessary because those targets are inadequate.

But anyone who wishes to achieve a target needs to set out as perse intends to go on. "Just one more dose and then I'll quit forever" is an ill-auspicious way to start.