* Impact on ecosystems [of geoengineering] must be predicted before technology is used, US atmospheric science agency chief says.*

So far, human geoengineering has been done unthinkingly, as a side effect of actions carried out for other purposes. Some of these side effects are extremely dangerous. Sometimes humans were ignorant of the eventual consequences; in other cases, they corruptly buried the knowledge. Some of them continue the disinformation today.

I see no reason to object _in principle_ to intentional geoengineering. With the knowledge we have learned, and some planning, we could make it less dangerous than unintentional geoengineering has been.

But that should not be an excuse to let the disinformationists win. Reducing the causes of our harmful geoengineering has to be safer than trying to counter one geoengineering with another.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Public Banking Act.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

*US energy industry [methane] leaks are triple the official figures, study finds.*

The leaks can be fixed, but we can expect those planet roaster companies to lobby against any effort to compel them to fix the leaks.

Columbia University suspended the school chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which joined many other groups in a peaceful protest against Israel's bombardment and siege of Gaza. Now the ACLU is suing, accusing the university of acting illegally and in a discriminatory manner.

The FBI warns that the killing of 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza is likely to radicalize many American Muslims and cause a big increase in the threat of terrorism in the US.

This is a reason why it would be to America's advantage to make Israel stop its atrocities in Gaza. But I think the moral reason, that we all have a duty to prevent atrocities, is the most important reason.

I call into question the validity of classifying "homegrown violent extremists" as a "foreign" terrorist threat. It seems to me that nothing can be both "homegrown" and "foreign" at once. But that is a minor detail, not part of the substance of the matter.