To 2 September -Nuclear and Climate News
It’s not that climate change is getting any better – it’s just that there were fewer news articles about it this week. There was a pretty desperate call from Pope Francis for governments to act.
One weather news item that is getting a lot of coverage is Hurricane Dorian -. not necessarily caused by climate change, but exacerbated by it. It’s of particular interest because of the St. Lucie and Turkey Point nuclear power stations on alert in Florida, potentially in its path. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERxqsFXRQ0
August, the month when we remember the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,– has been an ominous month for bringing us all closer to World War 3. Donald Trump moved to trash all the nuclear arms agreements, that might put the brakes on international conflict. Pentagon experts recommended Artificial Intelligence to control nuclear weapons. There have been at least 3 occasions when the imagination and intuition of a human being has just narrowly saved the world from a nuclear holocaust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGsrO3klcAs
A bit of good news. Spanish group gives summer holidays to kids from Chernobyl’s polluted region.
AUSTRALIA
NUCLEAR
- Western Australian Labor joins Queensland Labor in clearly rejecting nuclear power. Both major parties in Queensland now oppose nuclear power.Australian Government
- Nuclear Inquiry is told that renewables, not nuclear, are the best option. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors and Australia’s laws prohibiting the nuclear industry.
- Despite Australia’s laws prohibiting nuclear activities, ANSTO’s already chosen nuclear reactor types for Australia.
- Dr Jim Green explodes the Australian Financial Review ‘s propaganda promoting Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. Aaron Patrick of Australian Financial Review misrepresents economist John Quiggin on nuclear power. Nuclear
- lobby launches its “grassroots” push for nuclear power in Australia.
- Ziggy Switkowski’s doublespeak pushes the nuclear lobby’s barrow. Nuclear power in Australia not realistic for at least a decade, Ziggy Switkowski says. Risk of ‘catastrophic failure’ if Australia adopts nuclear energy: Switkowski.
- Is the push for nuclear power a covert push for nuclear weapons? Australia’s nuclear research reactor was always intended as the first step towards the nuclear bomb.
- Is Australian govt’s plan for “temporary” nuclear waste dump really part of drive to IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTES?
- Australia’s foremost climate scientist Tim Flannery used to favour nuclear power – not any more!
CLIMATE. Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine. Indigenous landowner challenges Environment Minister Sussan Ley’s decision for coal mine.
RENEWABLE ENERGY. NSW coal city, Newcastle, sets sights on 100 per cent renewables. Victoria government triples number of home solar rebates for September. Solar and giant “water battery” to slash university’s grid consumption by 40%.
They are trying to break Julian Assange “physically and psychologically”. Injustices to Julian Assange in British prison. (Why is Australia making a huge fuss about an Australian detained in China, but ignoring Assange?)
Climate change is destabilising the Earth’s marine environment. ‘12 Years to Act on Climate Change’ – what does this really mean?
Nuclear winter – the global threat to life. A freezing and deathly aftermath would follow a US-Russian nuclear war.
BRAZIL. International calls for urgent action on climate, as new fires rage in Amazon forests.
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