"Charge €30 a tonne for CO₂ to avoid catastrophic 4C warming."

The wording of the article suggests that when they say "carbon price" they mean a carbon tax. If so, I agree with them, but they are not making the point clear. The same term is used also to refer to emissions trading, which has been ineffective because it was so easy to game.

"My classroom has asbestos and bats": a Message for Betsy DeVos.

Professor Gérard Mourou, who just received the Nobel prize, made a video with students which refers playfully to sex.

I see no wrong in it, but I fear that prudes will try to crucify him.

Green Party Calls for Free Time Index to Replace GDP Measure.

I agree that the GDP is a bad index of how well the economy serves people in general, but I haven't seen a good replacement. It would be good to include something like the Free Time Index, but that alone can't do the job. To take an extreme example, if a lot of people are unemployed and starving, they have lots of free time but it isn't a good situation to be in.

Therefore, a good index needs to include other things. It needs to include some measure of whether people have enough income for a comfortable life, as well as not being overworked to get that income.

ACLU: San Francisco thugs have arrested blacks for selling small amounts of drugs, but never whites.