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Trump as the guest of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Saturday evening, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Trump didn’t just promise them weapons but the technical know-how/ specifications to make their own smart bombs, etc. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/trump-defense-assembly-jobs-for-saudis-technical-specifications-to-saudis-so-they-can-attack-the-us-at-a-future-date-with-smart-bombs-etc-a-few-republican-and-democratic-congress-members-objec/ The info below suggests that Trump may want them to have their own nuclear weapons, as well. First Russian Nuclear power stations, and then nuclear bombs. The Newsweek article discusses a Jeff Sessions tie-in, mentioned in the letter.

“Top Dems Raise New Concerns About Flynn’s Work on Saudi-Russian Nuclear Proposal
Jun 19, 2017 Press Release

Letter Requests Documents From Flynn Intel Group and Two Associated Entities

Washington, D.C. (June 19, 2017)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent…

Opinion:

¶ “Is renewable energy in Devon ‘an unmitigated disaster’?” • Countryside campaigners and renewable energy experts have clashed on how renewable energy has benefited the county, with campaigners calling it “an unmitigated disaster.” One campaigner said the county would be better served by a power plant burning natural gas. [Devon Live]

Agriculture and solar power

¶ “UK’s ‘stunning Sunday’ of 70% low-carbon power offers glimpse of near future” • Once again, renewable power hit records in the UK. An upshot of more renewable power on the grid is that as demand for power on the grid reduces, so also do prices. With high wind output last week, the UK recorded its first negative power prices. [pv magazine]

¶ “Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money” • South Texas is to wind power what Napa Valley is to wine and Georgia is…

We’re currently in what should be a relatively considerable temperature trough following a strong 2015-2016 El Nino. But the globe hasn’t really cooled off that much.

In contrast, during the two year period following the 1998 super El Nino, annual global temperature averages subsequently cooled by around 0.2 C to about 0.64 C warmer than 1880s averages as a strong La Nina swept in. This post El Nino cooling provided some respite from harmful global conditions like increasingly prevalent droughts, floods, fires and coral bleaching events set off by the 1998 temperature spike. It did not, however, return the world to anything close to average or normal temperature conditions.

Warming Out of Context

(So far, 2017 temperature averages for the first five months have remained disturbingly close to what should have been an El Nino driven peak in 2016. Temperatures remaining so warm post El Nino are providing little…

Sellafield B30 Pond with Herring Gull and Spent Fuel Rods

“The concrete is in dreadful condition“The concrete is in dreadful condition, degraded and fractured, and if the ponds drain, the Magnox fuel will ignite and that would lead to a massive release of radioactive material,” nuclear safety expert John Large told the Ecologist magazine. “I am very disturbed at the run-down condition of the structures and support services. In my opinion there is a significant risk that the system could fail.

There are leading environmentalists who say that we need coking coal for the steel making process. Even if this is true (much steel is recycled) the “necessary” coking coal mine should not be anywhere near the worlds biggest biohazard which is Sellafield.   This article from 2013 proves the point.  The last thing that we need near Sellafield is induced  Siesmic activity.

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Opinion:

¶ “Reasons to be cheerful, despite Trump withdrawing from the Paris Agreement” • The US has abdicated responsibility from the Paris Climate Agreement. While this is a blow to the fight against climate change, a new “G3” – the EU, China and India – may fill the leadership vacuum, with help from the US private sector. [The Guardian]

Indian students (Photo: Jagadeesh Nv | EPA)

¶ “Why you’re about to pay through the nose for power” • Ever since Australia’s carbon tax was removed, power prices have only headed one way – upwards. Investment in renewable energy plummeted at just the time the power industry began to make good on its plans to mothball its antiquated coal-fired generators. Now, Australia has a supply shortage. [ABC Online]

¶ “Renewables and storage will crush coal way ahead of Finkel’s forecast” • The BNEF report has pointed to the inevitable decline…