*The amount of heat the Earth traps has doubled in just 15 years, study shows.*

This is related to drought.

*Climate campaigners claimed a "historic victory" after a Brussels court on Thursday condemned Belgium for its climate policy that breaches the country's duty of care and human rights obligations.*

A court ruled that the CDC can't make vaccination requirements for cruise ships.

Rulings like this make the US rather helpless defend itself against future pandemics. In other words, they endanger national security.

I expect the Republican-controlled US states to suffer another wave of Covid-19, with the Delta variant, causing a substantial number of deaths and permanent disabilities among adults under age 60.

The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 jumped to humans from an animal or leaked from a lab has become politicized, and researchers feel threatened based on the positions they take.

Scientific progress needs the truth, whatever it is, and this will make the truth harder to ascertain.

LinkedIn censors user profiles for China.