The continuing saga of the Russian mini-revolt is well-explained by  Leonid Bershidsky,  a former columnist of  Bloomberg Europ e.   He is a 51-year old Russian journalist now based in Berlin, having moved there in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea.  Has previously worked at  Newsweek  and  The Moscow Times .  He has written several books.   But to the topic of the day, is this that impactful summer that will finally convince decision-makers to take global warming seriously?  Possible, but unlikely, for a key reason to be provided. The  New York Times  yesterday said: Today, New Orleans will reach 113 degrees in the heat index. Houston will reach 111. Mobile, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., will also surpass 110. And those are only a few of the places that will experience dangerous heat this week. Summer technically just began, and parts of the U.S. are already seeing the unusual heat that   experts warned about   and that is becoming more common as a result of climate change. About 45 millio

Two days after the  Russian  rebellion , the surprise is that the news media was actually on top of all the action.  You would have thought that the absence of any kind of reliable information from that country would suppress "the truth."  First, earlier today, released was an 11-minute audio by the leader of revolt as defiant as ever.  Then, later at night, a 5-minute address to his nation by Vladimir Putin, where he essentially reinforced what I thought was the reality.  Essentially, there was this revolt led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group ( about 40,000 mercenaries ), which ended in a compromise arranged by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko.  Certainly, this exposed Putin as vulnerable, and no matter what was decided, places Prigozhin as enemy #1 to Putin.  What is the future?  Stay tuned. It is  not popularly known , but there are already decades-old hepatitis B vaccines to prevent liver cancer, and HPV vaccines, introduced in 2006, to prevent cervical can