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.

Climate: Forest Service Announces Effort

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Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Florida)
Nov. 07, 2008

Forest Service unveils effort to tackle climate change, preserve woodlands
By TOM KNUDSON – McClatchy Newspapers

RENO, Nev. – U.S. Forest Service Chief Gail
Kimbell Friday unveiled a new agencywide effort
to tackle the problem of climate change, saying
it poses the greatest danger yet to the nation’s
woodlands.

“This issue is so big,” Kimbell said in an
interview at the national convention of the
Society of American Foresters in Reno, Nev. “The
health and resilience of America’s forests affect
everyone.”

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Climate & the East Coast: “Dramatic” and “Extensive” Effects

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” … has led to dramatic ecosystem shifts as far south as North Carolina
and extensive geographic range shifts of many plant and animal species.”
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News Release
Public release date: 6-Nov-2008

Cornell University

Evidence found for climate-driven ecological shifts
in North Atlantic, says Cornell study

ITHACA, N.Y. – While Earth has experienced numerous changes in
climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have
experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning
of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago, says a new
Cornell University study.

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Malaysia: Warming, Flooding Mega-Wildfires

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” … upward trend in both annual and seasonal rainfall…”

“The maximum length of dry spell also shows an upward trend…”

“….hundreds were swept to their death by a
sudden furious midnight river flooding on
Christmas eve.

“At the other extreme were protracted droughts and mega forest
infernos…”
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DAILY EXPRESS (Sabah, Malaysia)
06 November, 2008

Proof of climate change in Sabah

Kota Kinabalu: There are distinct, measurable signs and actual
events of global warming in Malaysia and Sabah, according to
Prof. Dr Felix Tongkul, Centre for Natural Disaster Studies,
Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). “Consistent with changes in the
other parts of the world, surface temperature in most areas in
Malaysia has been showing an upward trend since the last four
decades at rate 2.7 to 4 degrees centigrade per hundred years,”
said Prof. Tongkul.

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Zombies Tell Bank of America: “Coal Is Killing Us!”

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As the sun fell on Halloween, the undead victims of mountain top removal coal mining rose up and descend upon Bank of Americas and Citibanks in Boston. It is no coincidence that while Bank of America and Citibank make a killing on coal, coal is killing Appalachian communities that fall prey to dirty energy companies whose interests in profiting from strip mining outweigh the value of lives and mountain communities. In 2006, Bank of America invested twice as much in dirty energy as it did on clean energy projects. In 2006, Citi’s investments in coal were 200 times greater than their investments in clean energy, making them the number one financier of coal worldwide.

Photos available here.
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