Right-wing supporters pretend that their side can do no wrong. When evidence appears showing the harm their policies have done, they post lies to discredit it.

The lies sound so plausible, and the people they are attributed to seem so normal and credible, that honest people are often taken in by what amounts to a con.

Denmark has taken a serious approach to decarbonization, with a legally-binding reduction target every 5 years.

This would eliminate the weakness of having only long-term targets that can easily be ignored for a decade or two without political consequences.

Their schedule is still not fast enough, but at least it is an approach that can do the job.

The EU is now proposing a bold initiative to cut total greenhouse emissions in half by 2030.

*EU's soaring climate rhetoric not always matched by action.*

Today's youth display admirable and unusual maturity in campaigning now to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even though those are not likely to kill them until a few decades from now.

Climate emergency protest in Australia: "NSW is Burning, Sydney is Choking."

We should have acted before it became an emergency. Our response was blocked by corrupt leaders, starting with Dubya.

We should make it a crime to continue operating fossil fuel facilities, and hold companies' major owners responsible for the crime.

Instead of jailing the poor suspects because they can't afford bail and calling them "flight risks," let's jail the rich suspects because they might bribe someone, and call them "corruption risks."

Of the 800-odd species of Eucalyptus trees in Australia, 1/4 are endangered.

Mostly they have been decreased by humans that cut them down to make farms, but fire now contributes. Eucalyptus trees are adapted to survive ordinary fires, but if the fire is very hot, it can destroy a tree entirely.

The plutocratist world pushed Zambia into enormous debts, so now it is selling everything to China.

Sooner or later, China will use that power to gain more power. I wonder whether there is a chance that Western governments will support debt relief for poor countries once the debts are in the hands of a strategic rival such as China.