Climate, nuclear, news and more -this week

Some bits of good news –

World Children’s Day 2024 – Every year, World’s Children Day is celebrated on 20 November, marking the date that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted. Jordan Recognized as First in the World to Eradicate Leprosy

TOP STORIES

Israeli Scholar Lays Out ‘True Brutality’ of Ethnic Cleansing Now Underway in Gaza.

The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won (No Not That One, The Other One).

From the archives: Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war.

Climate.

Climate talks to open in shadow of Trump victory.
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme.
How Trump’s second term could derail the clean energy transition.
‘A wrecking ball’: experts warn Trump’s win sets back global climate action. Trump planning to withdraw from Paris climate agreement.
Von der Leyen’s Cop29 absence sends ‘fatal signal’, say watchers.
‘Two sides of the same coin’: governments stress links between climate and nature collapse.

Environment. The Guardian view on Trump’s planet-wrecking plans: the UK government’s resolve will be tested.

Noel’s notes. The International Atomic Energy Agency in full force with its lying propaganda, at COP 29, with at least 20 ‘Events”. The Trump period and the use of language.

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AUSTRALIA.

Australia US Alliance: Is It Time to Rethink Our Loyalty? Airstrip One: How Albanese has integrated Australia into Trump’s military machine.
What from Trump? | The West Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4GK0sY-cgc
10 reasons why Donald Trump can’t derail global climate action. Donald Trump can’t stop global climate action – If we stick together, it’s the US that will lose out.
‘No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate.
Matt Kean says Australia must take ‘strong and decisive action’ on climate crisis despite Trump re-election.
More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/11/07/australian-nuclear-news-4-11-november/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN. Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza.

CULTURE. Trump Puts An Appropriately Ugly Face On A Very Ugly Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRThFwyddvk

ECONOMICS. Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions. Amazon’s nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal.Talen-Amazon Nuclear Power Deal Hits Speed Bump – Why Constellation Stock Is Down More. This is why nuclear power stocks are falling

EDUCATION. Nuclear lobby continues its infiltration of education.

EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley workers ‘unfair’ pay claim leads to action. Hinkley Point and Sizewell nuclear plant engineers go on strike. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/07/1-b-hinkley-point-and-sizewell-nuclear-plant-engineers-go-on-strike/

ENERGY. IEA: Countries not on course to double rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030. Compelling Economics of Renewables Unmask Fossil Fuels and Nuclear.

Endangered Bees Halt Meta’s Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Plans.

Minimal role for nuclear in UK government agency’s Clean Energy plan.

Clean Energy Community Mobilizes as Trump Rises, Supporters Embrace Project 2025.

ENVIRONMENT. Radioactive pollution from bomb plant sparks cancer fears. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) report UK published.

HEALTH. Radiation. Occupational exposure to radiation among health workers: Genome integrity and predictors of exposure.

LEGAL. The death of Karen Silkwood—and the plutonium economy. Three sentenced to death for role in Iranian nuclear scientist’s assassination .

MEDIA. A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted.The Government-Media-Academia Misinformation Machine and “Ukraine’s Victory”.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Seven Canadian environmental groups challenge the nuclear industry’s false claims ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/07/1-b1-seven-canadian-environmental-groups-challenge-the-nuclear-industrys-false-claims/

POLITICS.

Nuclear sector’s views on second Trump administration mixed as Rogan interview raises questions.
What Netanyahu’s firing of Yoav Gallant means for Gaza, Israel’s regional war, and the US-Israel relationship.
Big Promise From Trump: ‘I’m Going to Stop Wars’.
UK budget outlines nuclear power plans (new nuclear not a high priority)

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Everybody Wants to Join BRICS.Can Trump 2.0 defuse the nuclear threat? These Washington heavyweights fear not.Iran says it rejects nuclear weapons, but will defend itself by all means. UN nuclear head to visit Iran for talks on country’s nuclear program as next Trump presidency looms.UK says it voted against UN nuclear war panel because consequences already known. Poodles and puppet masters – Mutual Defence Agreement puts USA in charge of UK military policy.

SAFETY. Can quake-prone Japan ever embrace nuclear energy again? When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic .

SECRETS and LIES. COP 29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals.

TECHNOLOGY. Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again. Micro-reactor developer optimistic about connecting South Wales project by 2027.

WASTES. Germany excludes over half of its territory in search for long-term nuclear waste storage.
Robot Removes First Bit Of Fukushima’s Nuclear Fuel Debris – Just 880 Tons More To Go. Nuclear debris retrieved from Fukushima reactor weighs 0.7 gram. Tepco removes [a tiny sceric] of nuclear fuel debris from Fukushima disaster site.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel’s attacks on Iran were an apocalyptic error by Netanyahu. Here’s why.
Foreign Policy: NATO knows Ukraine is losing. Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East. Biden, Zelensky ponder face saving off ramp from failed US proxy war against Russia.