the Guardian

Russia wages electronic warfare ‘using UK-made tech’, Ukraine dossier claims

Report calls on government to take immediate action to disrupt supply of technology used in electronic warfare

Export controls are not fully effective in denying Russia access to advanced components to put into its drones.

the Guardian

Fines for trespassing on farms would double to $115,000 under Victorian biosecurity bill

Government says legislation designed to strengthen state’s response to animal security, while critics describe move as ‘ag-gag by stealth’

An Australian state already imposes an enormous fine for "trespassing" on a farm, and is planning to double it. This seems to be meant as a kind of ag-gag law.

[3/3] … bad. This is why I generally expect the real course of future climate-related events to be somewhat worse, usually, than what scientists will have forecast based on known effects.

[2/3] … don't know about all those potential causal relationships, so we cannot predict their effects. Therefore, climate forecasts do not include those effects. But generally any big change in the overall environment tends to create abnormal environments for various systems. Since nearly every system is adapted to its environment — by some combination of evolution and human design — an abnormality in that environment tends to harm some systems. In other words, most surprises are …

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the Guardian

Wildfires gripped Canada last summer. Now, US farmers are feeling the burn

Smoke from blazes lingered over Ohio and other states in the corn belt affecting maturation, raising fears of crop damage

Glossary

Glossary

The smoke that came from big wildfires in Canada this year slowed the maturation (now) of corn crops in parts of the northern US. This illustrates how one problem caused indirectly by global heating can cause another problem, which is therefore also caused indirectly by global heating. We …