Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

FALSE SOLUTIONS: 2 Scientific Updates on Biofuels

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American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting

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“… motivations for advancing corn-based ethanol production
in the USA, such as reduced reliance on foreign oil and increased
prosperity for farming communities, must be considered separately,
but the greenhouse-gas-mitigation rationale is clearly unsupportable.”
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Greenhouse-Gas Consequences of US Corn-based Ethanol in a Flat
World.

Davidson, E A., et al     edavidson@whrc.org
The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth,
MA 02540- 1644, United States.

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Global Heating Killing Moose

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Moose are roaming right out of existence

In the Upper Midwest, the animals are dying off in startling numbers. Biologists blame global warming.
By Tim Jones December 29, 2008

Reporting from Chicago — It wasn’t long ago that thousands of moose roamed northwest Minnesota. But in two decades, the number of antlered, bony-kneed beasts from the North Woods has plummeted from 4,000 to fewer than a hundred.

They didn’t move away. They just died.

The primary culprit, scientists say, is climate change, which has systematically reduced the Midwest’s already dwindling moose population and provoked alarm in Minnesota, where wildlife specialists gathered for a “moose summit” this month in Duluth.

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FALSE SOLUTIONS: Climate Change and Geoengineering

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“If people are going to pursue geoengineering, they have to realize that it won’t be quick, cheap or easy; indeed, suggestions that it might be are utter nonsense, and possibly irresponsible.”

“How can global warming be combated?

“‘We must reduce carbon emissions,’ Turco said.”
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217190429.htm

No Quick Or Easy Technological Fix For Climate Change, Researchers Say

ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2008)-Global warming, some have argued, can be reversed with a large-scale “geoengineering” fix, such as having a giant blimp spray liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere or building tens of millions of chemical filter systems in the atmosphere to filter out carbon dioxide.

But Richard Turco, a professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a member and founding director of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, sees no evidence that such technological alterations of the climate system would be as quick or easy as their proponents claim and says many of them wouldn’t work at all.

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