But before Bocelli, first, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump.  This  public squabble between them seems to be escalating, mostly spurred by Musk .    A day after using his vast social media reach to brand the bill a “disgusting abomination,” he posted more than two dozen messages on X on Wednesday attacking the legislation, as well as urging his followers to call Congress and “KILL the BILL. ” All of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office studies support Musk.  Said Senator Rand Paul: “I think Congress is sort of like a bad behaving teenager when it comes to spending,” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of the Republicans threatening to vote against the bill, told TIME on Wednesday. “If you had a teenager that you were giving $100 a week and they wasted all of it on gambling or on booze, would you give them $200?” What seems to be bothering Musk is the effect some of these Trump cuts will have on his solar and battery enterprises.  This feud is also affecting Tes...

I've always felt that decision-makers will finally take global warming seriously if many tens of millions one hot summer actually die from the heat.  There are around  half a million heat-related deaths in the world annually , 45% in Asia and 36% in Europe.  I don't think it will be this summer, but we are close to getting there.  I guess I have something like this posting annually, for you can read my  June 2023 version , and it, too, looked ominous. Yes, we are having a terrible summer in the USA.  No official death count yet because the heat is just beginning, but  we average 1220 deaths annually .  This number is  ten times higher  than hurricanes deaths, for even with Hurricane Maria killing 2982 and Hurricane Katrina with 1833, the  annual average number of hurricane deaths is 124/year .  However,  Fox Weather had this graphic . Factors to  consider : High levels of humidity Obesity Fever Dehydration Prescriptio...