In an emotional speech at a protest in Los Angeles, a Nasa scientist urged people to heed warnings from climate experts.

The Nasa scientist is Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and an author who is currently a researcher on data at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as an assigned project scientist at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering.

Nuclear weapons are regarded by some as our best defence, and the Independent reported that we and Russia were in talks to work together on a nuclear defence option for the planet.

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. (wikipedia)

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