Year: 2008

New Climate Report Counters Bush Administration’s Record of “Denial, Disinformation, Cover-Up, and Delay”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 29, 2008
5:40 PM

CONTACT: Government Accountability Project
Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch Director Email: director@climatesciencewatch.orgor
Dylan Blaylock, GAP Communications Director Phone: 202.408.0034 ext 137, 202.236.3733 Email: dylanb@whistleblower.org

New Climate Report Counters Bush Administration’s Record of “Denial, Disinformation, Cover-Up, and Delay”
Years-Overdue Scientific Assessment Report Produced Under Federal Court Order

WASHINGTON, DC – May 29 – A report released today by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States, summarizes evidence of global climate disruption, the harmful impacts it is already having on society and the environment, and future projections of potential damages. The report, years overdue under a requirement of law, was produced only in response to an August 2007 federal court order that an assessment be produced by May 31, 2008.

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Former Tropical Storm Arthur Flooding Southern Mexico

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Storm Arthur threatens flooding in southern Mexico
Sun Jun 1, 2008 6:20pm EDT

By Chris Aspin

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Arthur, the first of the year in the Atlantic, weakened to a depression over Mexico on Sunday but still dumped torrential rain across the south of the country that threatened to create floods.

Arthur, which had been forecast to move early Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico where there are many oil installations, was still overland and was seen moving farther inland in coming hours and then losing punch.

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The Future of Arctic Mammals

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The current issue of Ecological Applications is devoted entirely to
the prospects for Arctic mammals in the new climate.

The various articles set out the new and still-emerging conditions
that will favor some Arctic mammals, but bring new risk to others.
For example, the Arctic’s seal species may not all be affected in the
same way by retreat of ice and warming waters.  Impact on whale
species may also differ.

Some of the articles are Open Access, free to anyone who wants to
download and read the full text. Others only offer the abstract —
summary — of evidence reported in the full article.

http://www.esajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=1051-0761&volume=18&issue=sp2&ct=1

Lance Olsen

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Activists Denounce Forest Stewardship Council for “Misleading the Public”

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Activists from Global Forests Coalition and World Rainforest Movement
made their voices heard at a side event organized by the Forest
Stewardship Council in Bonn. After listening to 45 minutes of polite
chat from the panel about how lovely FSC is, activists held up a
banner reading ?FSC: Stop Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?.
They also read out parts of the statement below.

After a couple of questions and a short discussion, Stefan Salvador
from FSC closed the meeting, although several more people wanted to
ask questions and some pointed out that this should be a democratic
space for discussing the problems with FSC.

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