*The dystopian danger of a mandatory biometric database in Mexico.*

The world's greenhouse pledges, supposing they are carried out, might now limit global heating to 2C.

That's big progress, but not enough to avoid disaster, because (1) 2C of heating will probably be disaster, and (2) positive feedbacks we don't know about could come into play.

*Ireland would need to cull up to 1.3 million cattle to reach climate targets.*

If civilization's survival depends on it, Ireland must do it.

The US Supreme Court may block all efforts to regulate CO2 emissions; for instance, the emissions of fossil-fuel-fired generators.

The US has put NSO, the company that makes the Pegasus cracking software, on a blacklist that forbids its use of US technology products.

I wonder if the US will be able to enforce that prohibition. What NSO sells is software.