An 18-year-old Florida high school student has been expelled and charged with two felony counts of “lewd and lascivious battery" because she fell in love and had a consensual relationship with a 15-year-old classmate who happens to be a girl. Citing the other girl's parents - who "see being gay as a sin" and chose to prosecute rather than, umm, talk - Kaitlyn Hunt's family has wisely gone public with a Change.org petition to stop the lunacy.

Watch the stampede of NYPD at a 135th Street subway station when Clive Utter, 31, allegedly jumped the turnstile, after which he was slammed into the wall, dropped onto the floor and cuffed by at least 25 officers - and a bystander filming the mayhem was forced to stop. Your tax dollars at work.

The most ambitious survey on the causes of climate change - covering 11,994 peer-reviewed papers by 29,000 scientists over 20 years - has found that 97.1% agree climate change is caused by human activity, with dissenters representing a "vanishingly small proportion." Yet industry lobbying has created a "gaping chasm" between scientific consensus and public perception, with just 42% of Americans seeing the connection.

"The public have been confused because people have been trying to confuse us."