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Chinese takeover of island near Australian military training area causes unease inside defence and government


Chinese takeover of island near Australian military training area causes unease inside defence and government
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A decision to grant a Chinese linked company a mining licence on a remote West Australian island, close to a military training area, is raising concerns inside Defence and federal government ranks.
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A Hong Kong-based company was last year granted a 12-year lease of abandoned mining operations on Cockatoo Island
The Foreign Investment Review Board examined the deal, but security officials have privately expressed concerns
Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells says the leasing to a Chinese linked company shows current laws are defective ....

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NOAA names 2020 second-hottest year on record; NASA says it tied for hottest ever » Yale Climate Connections


North America: 10th warmest
As detailed in a January 12 post at this site by Bob Henson, 2020 for the U.S. was the fifth-warmest year in history going back to 1895. Ten states had their second-warmest year on record and four had their third-warmest year. None of the contiguous 48 states was below-average in temperature in 2020.
Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for 2020, the second-warmest year the globe has seen since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA. Record-high annual temperatures over land and ocean surfaces were measured across parts of Europe, Asia, southern North America, South America, and across parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. No land or ocean areas were record cold for the year. (Image credit: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information) ....

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November 2020 among warmest Novembers on record, NOAA and NASA report » Yale Climate Connections


The year 2020 is virtually certain to rank among the five-warmest years on record.
Students in Legazpi City, Philippines declare a climate emergency amid damage left by Super Typhoon Goni on November 8, 2020. Goni made landfall 30 miles northeast of Legazpi on November 1 with 195 mph winds, making it the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone ever recorded. (Photo credit: Bicol University Science Alliance)
November 2020 was the second warmest November since global record keeping began in 1880, behind the record set in 2015, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported December 14.
NASA rated the month as the warmest November on record, as did the European Copernicus Climate Change Service. The Japan Meteorological Agency rated it as the second-warmest. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic. ....

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