Category: RT Newswire

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“Meanwhile, forests and oceans, which suck up carbon dioxide, are
doing so at lower rates, scientists said.”

“Richard Moss, vice president and managing director for climate
change at the World Wildlife Fund, said …”We should be worried —
really worried.”

“Things are happening very, very fast,” Le Quere told the Associated
Press. “It’s scary.”
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http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-warming26-2008sep26,0,6690604.story
Los Angeles Times
September 26, 2008

Greenhouse gas emissions shock scientists
Carbon dioxide output is rising rather than falling, despite efforts
to curb it. ‘It’s scary,’ one researcher says.

WASHINGTON – The world pumped up emissions of the chief
human-produced global warming gas last year, setting a course that
could push beyond leading scientists’ projected worst-case scenario,
international researchers said Thursday.

The new numbers, which some scientists called “scary,” were a
surprise because experts thought an economic downturn would slow
energy use. Instead, carbon dioxide output rose 3% from 2006 to 2007.
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FALSE SOLUTION: Forests, Logging, Biomass, & Wood-Fired Power

forwarded News Release: TreeHugger

US Forest Products Industry Nervous About Biomass-Fueled Generators :
TreeHugger

Wood-Fired Electricity; What’s Not To Like?

Create new incentives for a massive industry to compete for a primary
natural resource – trees in this case – and costs for existing
consumers of trees will go up, as will adverse environmental impacts.
Check out the title of this news release which appeared today on PR
Newswire: New RISI Biomass Study Finds Government Renewable Energy
Mandates Would Lead to Unsustainable Harvests Via:Yahoo
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Recent CO2 Increases: “Astonishing”

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“Anthropogenic CO2 emissions have been growing
about four times faster since 2000 than during
the previous decade …”

” Š the acceleration of both CO2 emissions and
atmospheric accumulation are Š astonishing during
a decade of intense international developments to
address climate change.”
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Global Carbon Project
Public release date: 25-Sep-2008

Contact: Pep Canadell
Pep.Canadell@csiro.au
61-407-068-930

Growth in the global carbon budget
Updated global carbon budget released

Today the new Global Carbon Budget was launched
simultaneously by Global Carbon Project co-chair
Michael Raupach in France at the Paris
Observatory, and in the USA at Capitol Hill,
Washington by GCP Executive Director Pep Canadell.
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More, Greater Wildfires in the North American West

Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana)
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/09/25/news/wyoming/21-managers.txt
Thursday, September 25, 2008.

Researchers: Expect more wildfires
By BRETT FRENCH
Of The Gazette Staff

JACKSON – Now might be a good time to get into the firefighting business.

If science and history are a guide, the world and
particularly the Rocky Mountain West are poised
on the cusp of a dangerous increase in the size
and frequency of large fires, caused by a warming
climate.

“By the end of this century we’re expecting the
area in Canada that burns to double,” said Mike
Flannigan, a research scientist with the Canadian
Forest Service. “Others say it will be a change
of three to five times. It looks pretty gloomy.”
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