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.

Study:Warming at Both Poles Definiteily Human-Caused

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Study:Warming at Both Poles Definiteily Human-Caused

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7700387.stm

Published: 2008/10/30 18:24:39 GMT © BBC MMVIII
Polar warming ’caused by humans’
By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, BBC News

The rise in temperatures at Earth’s poles has for the first time been   attributed
directly to human activities, according to a study.

The work, by an international team, is published in Nature Geoscience   journal.

In 2007, the UN’s climate change body presented strong scientific evidence the rise
in average global temperature is mostly due to human activities.

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Atmospheric Methane Rising

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Atmospheric Methane Rising

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“CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia’s
national science agency and one of the largest
and most diverse research agencies in the world.”
http://www.csiro.au/org/AboutCSIRO.html
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over the past year, the total sources have overwhelmed
the total sinks, and methane has again started to rise.”
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CSIRO News Release
30 October 2008

Global methane levels on the rise again
<http://www.csiro.au/news/GlobalMethaneRising.html>

After eight years of near-zero growth in
atmospheric methane concentrations, levels have
again started to rise.

“This is not good news for future global
warming,” says CSIRO’s Dr Paul Fraser, who
co-authored a paper to be published in
Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the
American Geophysical Union.

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