Category: RT Newswire

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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IEN Newsletter: Act Now To Stop Gov’t Giveaways to Nuclear Industry September News-Alerts-Actions Needed, Etc.

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Unfortunate Milestone: Autumn Equinox, 2008

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot

September 23 this year marks an unfortunate
milestone: the day humanity will have used all
the resources nature will generate this year,
according to Global Footprint Network data. Earth
Overshoot Day marks the day when humanity begins
living beyond its ecological means. Beyond that
day, we move into the ecological equivalent of
deficit spending, utilizing resources at a rate
faster than what the planet can regenerate in a
calendar year.

Globally, we now now require the equivalent of
1.4 planets to support our lifestyles. But of
course, we only have one Earth. The result is
that our supply of natural resources — like
trees and fish — continues to shrink, while our
waste, primarily carbon dioxide, accumulates.

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot

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