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Yemeni Forces Create Heat Wave In Saudi Arabia
The rich U.S. military has long dreamed of and tried to influence the weather. No practical results have been achieved.
Now the Yemen Armed Forces, under constant bombardment due to the U.S-Saudi war on Yemen and with meager resources, have accomplished the feat. They created a night-time heat wave in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi refinery operations not affected by transformer fire
Reuters, Khobar Sunday, 23 July 2017
The Saudi Aramco Mobile Refinery (SAMREF) at Yanbu is operating normally after a fire hit a power transformer at the gate of the facility on Saturday, a spokesman for a Saudi government body was quoted as saying on the state news agency.
Operations are ongoing and have not been affected by the incident, which happened due to hot weather, Abdulrahman Al-Abdulqader, the spokesman for the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, which manages and operates industrial cities in Saudi Arabia. The fire broke out at 21:22 local time, according to the spokesman.
Here is (vid) how the Yemeni forces created the "hot weather" .
@BaFana3 – 7:21 PM – 22 Jul 2017
Now by #Yemen armed forces: "New ballistic missile "Burkan 2H" launched. Target : #Saudi Aramco Yanbu oil refinery. Range : ≈1,300km."
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By Ahmed Jahaf – bigger
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@Lee_Saks – 9:00 PM – 22 Jul 2017
#SaudiArabia | transformer fire at Yanbu refinery due to hot weather. [Houthi rebels claimed to hit refinery with ballistic missile]. #OOTT
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The Yemeni weather service predicts that another heat wave will soon reach the United Arab Emirates.
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@BaFana3 – 9:59 PM – 23 Jul 2017
#Yemen army spox: "Ballistic missile Burkan-H2 hit #Saudi oil refinery in Yanbu. This missile has the range to hit Dubai."
….b’s post relates to one of my all-time beefs. In studies / discussions of the breakdown of ‘human’ causes of global warming, war is never mentioned.
Endless studies papers concerning use of fossil fuels exist (transport, industry, electricity production…); agriculture, mining; other greenhouse gases besides CO2, e.g. methane (cows!), deforestation, desertification, and ALL the feedback loops, etc. etc., more and more.
It is always taken for granted that all the human activity and doings are somehow ‘benevolent’ or ‘to effect a legitimately desired purpose’ even if from a hyper green pov they can be judged as misguided at best and nefarious and criminal at worst, e.g. MacMansions, cutting down prime forests, eating meat every day, having 7 children, driving about to no purpose, moon rockets, plastic bags, subsidising extraction, consumption, und so weiter..
WAR: Massacres, bombing, …and all the use of energy > pollution, the production of military materiel, and the setting off of explosives, etc. etc.
— Sidebar — The first thing to do would be to make a sort of classificatory chart, including all kinds of stuff, like the open burning pits in Iraq.. that list would be painful and long…sickening.. who is up for it?
My occasional posts at The Oil Drum were either ignored or well received, except on this one topic, which attracted ire. My response was, the studies use, set up, categories like ‘transport’, ‘industry’, ‘artisanat’, ‘housing infrastr.’ (in EU), etc. etc. but never War, so what is up with that? The categories are partly contructed on aim (e.g. to grow enough carb staples to feed x million ppl thru the Green (agri) Revolution), why can’t the intent to kill x million ppl be taken into account? Apparently that was out of the question, though I received some interesting e-mail, etc.
We are doomed, I tell you, doomed! Time to party like there is no tomorrow. 😉 Avoid motoring in France or flying to Thailand … 🙂
http://www.theoildrum.com (archives worth visiting on several topics)
Posted by: Noirette | Jul 25 2017 19:12 utc | 26
@21 james and previous comments on the Gulf of Aden / Red Sea point,
I doubt that strategic control of this region is really an issue. Every major interest on the planet wants to keep that open, the EU, China, NATO, US Navy, etc. Recall how the whole crackdown on Somali piracy happened? (I think it was the capture of a Saudi oil tanker that really kicked it into high gear)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-06/end-piracy-gulf-aden
So, alternate guess: House of Saud (and UAE monarchies) fears establisment of a independent Yemen state with a parliamentary democracy, as that might encourage their own overthrow.
Looking into Yemen, up through the Arab Spring it was really a client state of the House of Saud. From a 2009 Cablegate leak, for example, here’s your standard Third World client state kleptocratic intrigue:
SUMMARY: The Republic of Yemen Government, led by presidential son Ahmed Ali Saleh, has shifted responsibility for selling Yemen’s crude oil production share away from the Ministry of Oil and towards an interagency committee, sparking a behind-the-scenes business rivalry between tribal leaders and government officials who serve as local agents for international oil trading companies. The new oil marketing policy has attracted additional bidders to the monthly oil tenders, eroding tribal leader Hamid al-Ahmar’s longstanding monopoly over the process and increasing the ROYG’s oil revenues due to more competitive pricing. Despite these gains, the story of Yemen’s latest reform effort illustrates the challenges posed by Yemen’s web of tribal rivalries and presidential patronage networks.
The main Saudi agent there seems to have been this Hamid Al-Ahmar, who has since fled the country c. 2014:
(S/NF) Ahmar, who splits his time between Jeddah and a palatial estate in Sana’a, is intimately involved in the everyday dealings of the disparate subsidiaries and affiliates of the business conglomerate he chairs — the Ahmar Group. Post estimates that the majority of his official revenue stream comes from earnings at his telecom company Sabafon, the Saba Islamic Bank, various import-export companies, and his partnership with Siemens in the power sector. To a lesser extent, he also derives income from serving as the local agent for the London-based commodity trading company Arcadia Petroleum, which regularly buys most of the ROYG’s monthly crude oil share, and from owning a string of Western fast-food restaurants. . .Ahmar, like his late father, receives generous cash payoffs from the Saudi Government, which he collects in Jeddah rather than through the Saudi Embassy in Sana’a.
So Ahmar flees Yemen in 2014; Saudi Arabia is faced with loss of control, and the possible establishment of some kind of parliamentary democracy in Yemen. This seems to be the House of Saud’s biggest fear, the establishment of any kind of democratic system anywhere on their borders. This would give their own repressed population bad ideas, of the French Revolution sort. But this can’t be said directly, being bad PR, so they trot out the “Iranian threat” line to justify bombing the Yemenis back to the stone age, with UAE and US support.
Also, looking into the Yemen and Arcadia Petroleum deal turns up this murkiness.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-arcadia-wiki-i…
“Exclusive: Arcadia may have rigged Yemen exports (2011)”
You’d think that we’d be supporting the regional democracy movement, given the American history of revolution against British monarchy rule, and that’s likely why our corporate media refuses to give any coverage to the Yemeni freedom fighters, because that’s what they’d have to call them.
Posted by: nonsense factory | Jul 25 2017 19:25 utc | 27
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