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.

Important Study: Groundwater Impacts Climate Above Ground

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Damn! These egghead are really on to something!! And whaddya know: Dine’ on Black Mesa have asserted for years that Peabody Coal’s draining of the aquifer was impacting precipitation there in a negative way. Maybe more eggheads need to go to Pauline Whitesinger’s & herd sheep for awhile!!

Such implications are particularly critical in desert ecosystems-or anywhere some corporate scum want to plunder locals’ groundwater supplies…

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I have the Nature Geoscience article as pdf.  Here’s how ES&T reported on it.
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“You could safely say [that] if subsurface water is heavily
impacted”-whether by agricultural pumping, sea level rise, or massive
parking lots that prevent groundwater recharge-“you literally could
be affecting the weather.”
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Environmental Science & Technology
Publication Date (Web): October 22, 2008

Water belowground affects climate above

New modeling results show that groundwater conditions feed back into
climate by impacting energy transactions at the earth’s surface.
<http://pubs.acs.org/action/showStoryContent?doi=10.1021%2Fon.2008.010.28.134176>
Naomi Lubick

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Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity

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Dow Jones is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s–and Market Watch. The Market Watch story below shows that the financial community knows damned well that turning forests into fuel is lame at best.
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“It’s even worse on peatlands, which contain so much carbon that it
would be 600 years before we see any benefits whatsoever.”

“”This is not only an issue in South East Asia …”
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MARKET WATCH
WASHINGTON, Dec 01, 2008

Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds

(BUSINESS WIRE)–Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.

The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was carbon-rich peatland, the carbon balance would take more than 600 years. On the other hand, planting biofuels on degraded Imperata grasslands instead of tropical rain forests would lead to a net removal of carbon in 10 years, the authors found.

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Alarming New Study: Greenhouse Gases to Persist for Millenia

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This does not bode well…& it means no solace for those committed to half-assed, reformist approaches-in the face of a corporate fascist elite who will let go of NOTHING w/out a fight. Global Revolution Now!

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The Independent  November 30, 2008

Greenhouse gases will heat up planet ‘forever’ New study shows the effects of CO2 pollution will be felt for hundreds of thousands of years

Global warming is forever, some of the world’s top climate scientists have concluded. Their research shows that carbon dioxide emitted from today’s homes, cars and factories will continue to heat up the planet for hundreds of thousands of years.

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