Global heating, in Miami, means that death from heat will continue to increase.

Global heating has increased the range of summer temperatures in Tokyo. Sometimes it gets so hot that vigorous exercise becomes hazardous to health.

*Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report.*

But the work that is done would become insufficient as the climate crisis gets worse.

It is absurd to think we can afford to cope with the consequences of global heating each decade, as each decade will bring new changes bigger than the old ones. The costs will rise until they become more than we can cover.

The only solution we can afford is to stop global heating. It will be a big expense, but we only have to do it once.

The "bomb threat" which Lukashenko used as an excuse to force down the plane carrying Roman Protasevich was posted after the attack had already started.

A Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 45% by 2030.

When I first read about this, the vague words did not make it clear whether this meant a 45% decrease in the emissions from Shell's own operations, or a 45% decrease in emissions from the energy and fuel that Shell delivers to customers. That difference is crucial: the former would be insignificant, while the latter would be revolutionary.

From this article, I think it is the latter. Hooray! Even though this is just the first of many such battles, Hooray anyway!

A privacy campaigner puts the recent court victory over GCHQ's massive surveillance in context.

Tweets about fuel shortages led to Venezuelan oil union leader's arrest. last year.

Regardless of the facts, those charges seem morally invalid to me.

I wonder what happened after that hearing. Was Girot jailed until trial, or not?