*Australia's untapped gas reserves could unleash three year's worth of global emissions.*

There is no room in the carbon budget for any additional fossil fuel facilities.

The Tories plan to lick Covid-19 by applying hypothetical testing technology which they will try to develop.

Meanwhile, the Tory minister in charge tells asymptomatic people they cannot have a test. Doesn't he know that asymptomatic people can transmit Covid-19?

A few years ago the Tories said, as they eliminated incentives to install home solar power, that they would lick global heating with hypothetical carbon capture technology. That technology still has not been developed, and people rarely talk about it any more.

I think carbon capture and storage was a distraction technique — and it seems to have been successful, since we still are not taking adequate measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

South Australia will ban many kinds of single-use plastic items.

This is good, but it is crucial to take action on fishing nets discarded at sea. One idea would be to charge a large deposit for them when selling them. Large enough that no fishing boat operator would dream of failing to turn in a ruined net.

The USPS governing board is 100% satisfied with DeJoy, both his sabotage of the USPS and the fund-raising crimes he committed before in support of Republicans.

What they are saying is that they are loyal members of the bullshit party.

The Chief Justice of Massachusetts ordered a study of patterns of sentencing, and it found clear evidence of racial bias. Since the study controlled for other pertinent variables, there is no doubt about the conclusion: sentencing in Massachusetts is subject to systemic racism.

That the study was ordered by the state's highest judge gives me hope it will lead to considered action to reduce the injustice.

The article uses bigoted language ("white" and "Black"), and ordinarily I decline to publicize such articles. But the substance of this article is so important that I decided to link to it anyway. Please join me in pushing against intentional bigotry in journalism.