Janet Yellen calls for US carbon tax | Financial Times

But will the leopard actually change its stripes?

https://www.ft.com/content/a70edd88-b486-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085ffe

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EU lawmakers back 45 percent CO2 cut for cars, vans by 2030 | Reuters

While our new PM no doubt aspires to coal fired cars.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-auto-emissions/eu-lawmakers-back-45-percent-co2-cut-for-cars-vans-by-2030-idUSKCN1LQ2F5?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews

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Forests cut warming better than technology

So stop it, before you go blind! There’s no other way. So much waste with BECCS, no Drawdown, not even carbon neutral.

https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/forests-cut-warming-better-than-technology?e=81a8983ef7

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Many Major Airports Are Near Sea Level. A Disaster in Japan Shows What Can Go Wrong. – The New York Times

Do our leaders still play with idea of new international airport at Koo Wee Rup? Are they planning to recreate era of flying boats?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/climate/airport-global-warming-kansai.html

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Staff layoffs leave Cumbria nuclear plans on the brink

Another newly built nuke to be mothballed.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/staff-layoffs-leave-cumbria-nuclear-plans-on-the-brink-5mfgkcz3j

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Carbon removal is not enough to save climate

New papers comparing not reducing emissions v removal of emissions from atmosphere. And they all loved happily ever after.

https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/carbon-removal-is-not-enough-to-save-climate?e=81a8983ef7

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Another nuke, to be or not, UK Hinkley?

Hopelessly late and expensive, Austria is proceeding with legal action on EU court, to stop Hinkley, based on unfair finance and guaranteed, subsidised, high market price if it ever gets to go ahead.

https://www-timeslive-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/world/2018-09-03-no-nukes-for-uk-says-austria/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeslive.co.za%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F2018-09-03-no-nukes-for-uk-says-austria%2F

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Another zero km, as new nuke

“Opposition to nuclear power is widespread in Austria, which built a nuclear reactor but never brought it on line.

Voters rejected plans to bring it into operation in a referendum in 1978 and the reactor, at Zwentendorf on the Danube northwest of Vienna, now serves as a training centre.”

https://www-timeslive-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/world/2018-09-03-no-nukes-for-uk-says-austria/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeslive.co.za%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F2018-09-03-no-nukes-for-uk-says-austria%2F

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Bataan Philippines nuclear plant built but never fuelled

As well as nukes powered down, unable to tolerate heat waves in N Hemisphere, here’s one that cost enough to get finished but has never operated

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_Australia

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Analysts warn political uncertainty is causing pullback in business investment – RN Breakfast

BCA(Business Council Australia) boss alerts no hope for coal power by COALition because it’s clear change to Labor would scrap it.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/uncertainty-is-causing-pullback-in-business-investment/10212328

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