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.

Gift to Oil Industry Rushed Into Federal Register Before Bush Leaves Office; Final Oil Shale Regulations Endanger Lands, Communities of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2008  5:48 PM

CONTACT: Environmental Groups
Drew Bush (TWS), 202/429-7441, drew_bush@tws.org
Melissa Thrailkill (CBD), 415/436-9682 x313, mthrailkill@biologicaldiversity.org
Amy Mall (NRDC), 720/565-0188, amall@nrdc.org
Joe Nuehof (CEC), 970/243-0002, joe@cecenviro.org

Gift to Oil Industry Rushed Into Federal Register Before Bush Leaves Office
Final Oil Shale Regulations Endanger Lands, Communities of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming

WASHINGTON – November 17 – Ignoring the wishes of two governors and numerous members of Congress, the Bush administration announced today final regulations for a commercial oil shale program affecting almost 2 million acres of public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. These regulations lay out the rules governing royalty rates, evaluation of lease bids, mitigation requirements, and other technical and procedural elements of commercial oil shale leasing and production.

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CO2 and Oxygen-Depletion in Oceans

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Nature-Published online 14 November 2008

News

Marine dead zones set to expand rapidly

Rising carbon dioxide levels will make oceans
more hostile to life.

Quirin Schiermeier

Rising levels of carbon dioxide could increase
the volume of oxygen-depleted ‘dead zones’ in
tropical oceans by as much as 50% before the end
of the century – with dire consequences for the
health of ecosystems in some of the world’s most
productive fishing grounds.

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Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change?

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“‘Many climate scientists find the response to global warming completely
baffling,’ says Elke Weber, a Columbia University psychologist and the
chair of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change’s Public
Attitudes/Ethical Issues Working Group.”

“The truly disconcerting thing about this work is that it shows how
difficult it is to change people’s views and behaviors with factual
information.”
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AlterNet  November 14, 2008

Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat
of Catastrophic Climate Change?
http://www.alternet.org/story/106982/

By Lisa Bennett

Three years ago, I became obsessed with global
warming. Practically overnight, my worries about
its potential effects outstripped my worries
about so many other national and global issues,
even personal ones.

Indeed, as the mother of two young boys, I began
to think it a bit crazy that I attended to every
bump and scrape on my children’s little bodies
and budding egos, but largely ignored the threat
likely to put sizeable areas of the world,
including parts of the coastal city where we
live, underwater within their lifetime.

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