To 19 February – Climate and Nuclear News Australia
Climate change is, as always, the big news this week. Some climate models now predict unexpected , unprecedented spike in global temperatures. Can the insurance industry afford the rising flood risk?
Giant iceberg ‘calves’ from Antarctic ice shelf.
The nuclear connection is significant for the UK, too, as sea level rise threatens its new nuclear projects, at Sizewell, Hinkley Point C, as well as existing nuclear reactors and waste facilities at Sellafield and Drigg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tesHVSZJOg
There are many organisations worldwide, that are pushing for, and working on, action to slow or stall global warming. Global Optimism is the latest example, in which Christiana Figueres features, with her new book “The Future We Choose”
AUSTRALIA
MPs Andrew Wilkie and George Christensen to UK to help free Julian Assange.
CLIMATE. For Australia “business as usual” on climate change will cost many $billions. Climate change extreme weather making parts of Australia uninsurable. Reserve Bank says climate change already having profound impact on Australian economy.
New Resources Minister Keith Pitt ignores renewables, pushes for more coal, gas and uranium exports. Australia has done little on emissions, and is not planning much in next decade. #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s bushfire inquiry studiously ‘ignores’ carbon emissions. Coal miners given free ride under Morrison government emissions “caps”. Zali Steggall’s climate Bill, Labor’s befuddlement on coal.
NUCLEAR.
- 143 Anti-Nuclear, 10 Pro Nuclear Submissions (published) to Victorian Parliament. Due by 28 February 2020- Submissions to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Nuclear Prohibition.
- Risk that Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act could be changed to promote nuclear power.
- Greens’call for Australia as nuclear-free zone is defeated in the Senate. Labor stays strongly against nuclear power, despite pro nuke push from one union.
- Australian public unaware of the dangers of small nuclear reactors.
- Nuclear waste dumping: as the Baldock family sells farming land, is the agricultural market for Kimba now stuffed up? Australian government pushes on with nuclear dump, tramples on indigenous rights . South Australia’s grain exports could be at risk, if Kimba nuclear waste dump goes ahead.
- Media coverage of Kimba nuclear waste dump is found wanting. Controversial legislation for Kimba nuclear waste dump is tabled in Federal parliament. Whyalla is targeted for nuclear waste shipments and should have a right to refuse untenable plans. History of Australia’s govt move towards importing nuclear waste.
- NukeMap – what if Australian cities were hit by a nuclear bomb.
RENEWABLE ENERGY Australia’s global opportunity to lead on solar power. Senate backs Greens call for ARENA funding extension as money dries up. #ScottyFromMarketing and his crew – blind to the economics of renewable energy.
Australia must learn to mine rare earths responsibly. Greens leader Adam Bandt seeks new deal with “renewable mining and manufacturing” sector. Holden brand killed off as GM switches focus to electric vehicles.
South Australia’s renewable energy future hampered by lack of electricity infrastructure. Queensland researchers smash solar efficiency record for ‘quantum dot’ solar cells. How rooftop and big solar are pushing coal out of daytime energy market. Wind and batteries saved the day when storm cut South Australia adrift. Australian ‘Solar Skin’ invention could power cities and vehicles of the future.
INTERNATIONAL
#WETOOARE PROTESTERS FREE JULIAN ASSANGE
189 nuclear and radioactive material incidents in 2019.
Radioactive material ‘a magnet for groups with malicious intent’, warns UN nuclear watchdog chief.
Hysteria isn’t killing nuclear power. – It’s the very real dangers and catastrophic costs. Uranium prices at rock bottom- doesn’t help the struggling nuclear industry.
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1.This month.
The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
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