*Phoenix’s extreme heat withers saguaros, trademark cactus of desert landscape.*

If saguaros survive in the 21st century, I suppose it will be in places distant from their current range. But how will they get there? It takes years for a saguaro to start to reproduce.

It is winter in South America, but several countries are having summer-like heat waves.

*[Australian] Greens push Labor to release declassified climate crisis report "full of explosive truths" [about security threats global heating will cause].*

The Labor government is much less bad than the previous right-wing government, which was totally in the planet-roaster camp. But it still supports the planet roasters in some important ways.

Tropical mosquitos that carry West Nile virus have been found living in Finland.

Non-kinky sex has become unusual in mass culture and there is a tendency to sneer at it.