Wednesday roundup

Iran has stopped dismantling centrifuges, which was required by the deal that was the culmination of much patty-cake and post-American humiliation.

Bjorn Lomborg has run the numbers, and they reinforce the pointlessness of acting as if the global climate is in any kind of trouble:

Even if every nation in the world adheres to its climate change commitments by 2030 the only  difference it will make to “global warming” by the end of this century will be to reduce the world’s temperatures by 0.048°C (0.086°F).

That’s 1/20th of a degree C.

Let’s put this into perspective.

Earlier this year, Climate Change Business Journal calculated that the annual cost of the global warming industry is $1.5 trillion.

If you want to know what that looks like in numerals it is:

$1,500,000,000,000

And if you want a better idea of how it looks conceptually, I highly recommend this infographic visualisation.

To put it another way, even if you’d spent $1 million a day every day since the birth of Jesus, you’d still be less than half the way to reaching $1.5 trillion.

A little bit of North Korea in the Show-Me State. If someone says something that hurts your feelings on the U of M campus, the campus police want you to call 911 and report it. Provide, if possible, a license plate number and photo of the meanie. The police department tweet acknowledges that offending people is not illegal, but they can pass the information along to the Office of Student Conduct, which can pursue "disciplinary action."

Hillionaire's hot water just got a little hotter:

Even as Hillary Clinton tries to put questions about her private email server behind her, the FBI has stepped up inquiries into the security of the former secretary of state's home-made email system and how aides communicated over email, POLITICO has learned.

The FBI’s recent moves suggest that its inquiry could have evolved from the preliminary fact-finding stage that the agency launches when it receives a credible referral, according to former FBI and Justice Department officials interviewed by POLITICO.

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“This sounds to me like it’s more than a preliminary inquiry; it sounds like a full-blown investigation,” said Tom Fuentes, former assistant director of the FBI. “When you have this amount of resources going into it …. I think it’s at the investigative level.”

And that's how it is this evening in this post-American world.