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Extreme weather conditions consistent with climate change predictions

We know that any one single extreme weather event cannot be attributed just to climate change. But we can look at the climate models and predictions, which all say that in a climate-changed world extreme weather events will become more frequent and intense…..Insurance agency Munich Re showed climate change was linked to 21,000 deaths in the first nine months of 2010 – double the number of deaths caused by extreme weather in 2009.

It‘s time to talk of climate change, Sydney Morning Herald, Ellen Sandell, January 14, 2011 What kind of world are we going to leave for the next generation?I N APRIL 2009 the Los Angeles Times ran the headline: “What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia”. The article said events unfolding in Australia – record-breaking droughts, killer bushfires and devastating floods – gave a snapshot of our future in a globally warmed world. Nearly two years on, it seems very little has changed…….. Continue reading →

January 14, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, AUSTRALIA, climate change | Leave a comment

Killer of Iran nuclear scientist: confession on Iran TV

Iran airs ‘Mossad assassin’s’ full confession In video interview  Israel News, Ynetnews, by Dudi Cohen 13 Jan 2011, Majid Jamal Fash admits to murder of nuclear scientist last year, describes training at Israeli hands. The Islamic Republic’s official news agency on Thursday aired the full interview it held with the young man who admitted to murdering a nuclear scientist last year. Majid Jamali Fash described at length his visit to Tel Aviv and Herzliya, the training he received at Mossad headquarters and the day of the assassination….. Iran airs ‘Mossad assassin’s’ full confession – Israel News, Ynetnews

January 14, 2011 Posted by | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Wikileaks reveals a different view on Ahmadinejad and nuclear policy

Despite the opposition from all sides, Ahmadinajed, we have learned, continued to tout the nuclear deal as a positive and necessary step for Iran. In February 2010, he reiterated his support for the Geneva agreement saying, “If we allow them to take [Iran’s enriched uranium for processing], there is no problem.”

Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong? – Reza Aslan – International – The Atlantic, 14 Jan 2011, ……….In October 2009, Ahamdinejad’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, worked out a compromise with world power representatives in Geneva on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. But the deal, in which Iran agreed to ship nearly its entire stockpile of low enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing, collapsed when it failed to garner enough support in Iran’s parliament, the Majles. Continue reading →

January 14, 2011 Posted by | Iran, politics | Leave a comment

Russia wants conditions on arms agreement with USA

other nuclear-armed nations must take part and the agenda must include weapons in space, strategic missiles equipped with conventional explosives and other non-nuclear conventional weapons. Russia opposes U.S. plans for space-based weapons.

Russian Demands Signal Delay in U.S. Arms Talks – WSJ.comBy RICHARD BOUDREAUX

13 Jan 2011, MOSCOW—Russia said further cuts in nuclear weapons sought by the U.S. can be achieved only as part of a multinational accord limiting other types of armaments, a position that dims the Obama administration’s chances for swift progress toward one of its biggest foreign policy goals Continue reading →

January 14, 2011 Posted by | politics international, Russia, weapons and war | Leave a comment

World summit on renewable energy

World leaders to attend energy summit in Abu Dhabi, Khaleej Times, Haseeb Haider, 14 January 2011 ABU DHABI— World leaders including heads of state and government, along with United Nation’s Secretary General and other officials are assembling in Abu Dhabi to discuss renewable energy issues, at the Four day the World Future Energy Summit or WFES-2011, Abu Dhabi’s flagship annual show. Continue reading →

January 14, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says all of UK’s high level radioactive waste is at Sellafield

NDA: ‘No plans to send high-level nuke waste to Sellafield’ , Whitehaven News by Alan Irving, 13 January 2011 THE Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says it has no plans whatsoever to send high-level radioactive materials to Sellafield. Copeland’s MP Jamie Reed has raised Parliamentary questions over claims that high-level waste might come to Sellafield from other UK nuclear sites. Continue reading →

January 14, 2011 Posted by | UK, wastes | Leave a comment

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