*Warning: the UK government’s hydrogen plan isn’t green at all, it’s another oil industry swindle.*

They keep bringing back the same swindles, rearranged in each country.

*[UK thugs] make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month.* Some of them were kept in jail for days.

The true supporters of the planet roasters will arrest any number of people to keep the oil and profits flowing. As more people recognize the deadliness of the path we are on, the repression required will increase.

*Without Reform to Federal Oil and Gas Drilling Requirements, U.S. Taxpayers Could Face a Nearly $18B Clean-Up Bill.*

The decision to count only drilling on federal lands omits a large part of the oil drilling, but the fossil companies are clever at skipping out on their future responsibilities. Ultimately the public will have to pay for much of that cleanup too.

But full cleanup is not always feasible. The oil from the Big Spill is still present on beaches on the US Gulf Coast, and still slowly poisons wildlife, although it does not attract attention by killing massive numbers of animals at once.

These costs of cleanup are just a tiny fraction of the cost of the additional disasters that burning the petroleum will cause. But this fraction is easy to prevent, so we would be fools not to do so.

The UN says that Israel's bombardment and attacks in Gaza make it impossible to do anything to protect civilians there.

There are now real treatments for cystic fibrosis -- but so expensive that most people even in wealthy countries cannot benefit from them.

It is self-defeating to encourage development of new and better drugs with a system that tells patients to drop dead. We should abolish patents on medicines and fund the research with public funds instead.