https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/extreme-heat-warnings-advisories-28-states
100 million Americans are enduring searing temperatures as Biden declines to announce a climate emergency
The National Weather Service has warned that extreme heat will affect more than 100 million people in the US this week, with triple-digit temperatures in some states and broken temperature records in many areas across the country.
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Heat warnings and advisories have been put in place for 28 states, with central and southern states facing the brunt of the scorching heat.
Some parts of Oklahoma reached 115F (46C) this week, while the Dallas area hit 109F (42C).
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Extreme heat warnings in effect in 28 states across US
COP26 News review day 10
COP26: China and US agree to boost climate co-operation
China and the US have agreed to boost climate co-operation over the next decade, in a surprise announcement at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The two countries released a rare joint declaration promising action.
It says both sides will “recall their firm commitment to work together” to achieve the 1.5C temperature goal set out in the Paris Agreement.
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What do countries on the frontline of the climate crisis think of COP26?
How has the news of progress at COP26 – or lack of it – and the prospect of a 2.4 degree increase in temperature, been going down in countries of the Global South, already struggling with the effects of climate change?
Boris abruptly ends Cop26 press conference after just 22 minutes: ‘Gotta go’
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Politics news allsorts
Commentary and analysis of recent UK politics events
US is tracking the movements of 5 billion people everyday through their mobile phones
US considered spying on Australian citizens without the knowledge of it’s Australian spying partner
Isa Muazu wins stay of removal
Solicitors were granted the stay pending the outcome of an oral judicial review hearing to be heard by the upper tribunal on December 9th.
…The judicial review concerns the challenge to the home secretary’s decision to certify his asylum claim and remove him to Nigeria.
Toufique Hossain, immigration law director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, which represents Muazu, said: “This is what we wanted all along, and thanks to the home secretary’s incompetence we now have it.”
Why there ain’t nothing surer, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.
Most of us now enjoy luxuries that would have been unheard of a hundred years ago – running water, electricity, computers, phones, cheap food and clothing. Yet, despite all this, there is discontent. People are angry.
The problem is inequality. Inequality is everywhere, it is increasing and it comes in many different forms.
There is the wealth gap.
The wealthiest 400 people in the world are worth more than the poorest 140 million.
70% of the land in the UK is owned by less than 1% of the population.
When once CEOs of major corporations earned 20 times more than their employees, now they can earn a thousand times more. A Burberry sales assistant (according to Glassdoor) earns £16-17,000 including commission. The Burberry CEO, Angela Ahrendts, received £16.9 million last year. I shudder to think what the factory worker is getting.
Over fifty per cent of young people believe they will never own a house, while the average age of the first-time buyer in London is now over 40. He or she’ll be a pensioner before they can start a family.
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More later – busy