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Former Tropical Storm Arthur Flooding Southern Mexico

By postMigrator June 2, 2008 June 2, 2008 RT Newswire

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.

The Future of Arctic Mammals

By postMigrator May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008 Uncategorized

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”

By postMigrator May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008 RT Newswire

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.

191 Nations Torpedo “Ocean-Fertilization” False Solution

By postMigrator May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008 RT Newswire

it appears the forces of sanity have won this one!

see ya planktos / climos etc!

The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization:
End of Round One on Geo-Engineering.
191 countries agree landmark moratorium on ocean CO2 sequestration.

As the ninth meeting of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) draws to a close in Bonn, Germany the world’s governments are
set to unanimously agree a wide-ranging “de-facto moratorium” on ocean
fertilization activities. This first-ever global decision on a geo-
engineering technology should spell the end of commercial plans to
sequester carbon dioxide by dumping nutrients into the open ocean.
Nonetheless one ocean fertilization company, Climos Inc of San
Francisco, appears to be moving full steam ahead in defiance of
international consensus.