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It’s all going to ultimately revolve around water…because Water IS Life.

ASW

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” … the United States will have much less influence around the world
as the growing climate conditions, water and energy stress the planet.”

“Climate change, we concluded, is not by itself going to bring down any
governments. It is not going to lead to wars,” he added. But in the case
of “already stressed and strained and failing and flailing governments
and states … this well could be the straw that breaks the camel´s back.”
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American Chronicle
November 21, 2008

Water worth more than gold
by Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter

The new U.S. intelligence report issued by the
National Intelligence Council, the “Global Trends
2025” report includes warnings tied to climate
change. Including water and food shortages
worldwide.

Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy
director of national intelligence says of the
report that may effect the U.S. most is that the
United States will have much less influence
around the world as the growing climate
conditions, water and energy stress the planet.

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For Immediate Release:
Contacts:
Larson Bill, South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone,
775-744-2565/775-397-6726
Dan Randolph, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775-722-4056
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-397-1371

Thanksgiving the “Cortez” Way-U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections–Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve up Mount Tenabo Spiritual Area

November 20, 2008 Reno and Crescent Valley, NV.

Last week, after years of determined opposition from Western Shoshone, the U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on the flank of Mount Tenabo–an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone. The area is home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Over the years, tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from across the United States and around the world have joined with the Shoshone and voiced their opposition to this mine. The mine has been referred to as one of the most opposed mines in the world and indeed the level of public opposition is unprecedented for the BLM. With the threat of mine construction beginning as early as this week, the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin Resource Watch, today filed a complaint in the Reno Federal District Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the mine.

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Cornell Chronicle-Cornell University  Nov. 18, 2008

Global warming predictions are overestimated,
suggests study on black carbon
By Krishna Ramanujan

A detailed analysis of black carbon–the residue of burned organic
matter–in computer climate models suggests that those models may
be overestimating global warming predictions.

A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geosciences,
quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found
that there was far more than expected, said Johannes Lehmann, the
paper’s lead author and a Cornell professor of biogeochemistry. The
survey was the largest of black carbon ever published.

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Water vapor is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases. As the
oceans warm, thanks to rising levels of CO2, they evaporate water
vapor more freely into the atmosphere. Similarly, as the land surface
warms, it too evaporates more water vapor into the warming atmosphere.

As the atmosphere warms, thanks to rising levels of CO2, it can hold
more water vapor.
Lance
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“We now think the water vapor feedback is extraordinarily strong,
capable of doubling the warming due to carbon dioxide alone.”
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NEWS RELEASE
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Public release date: 17-Nov-2008

Contact: Sarah DeWitt
sarah.l.dewitt@nasa.gov
301-286-0535

Water vapor confirmed as major player in climate change

Water vapor is known to be Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas, but
the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated.
Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more
precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air,
validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate
change.

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