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.

3-4 Degrees Celsius: Looking Grim

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3-4 Degrees Celsius: Looking Grim

Humans could escape in scenarios where only 10 to 20 percent of
species go extinct. We would likely be reduced in number but
plausibly still do OK at a 30 percent extinction rate.
But as the evidence points toward “up to 50 percent” extinction rate,
we should expect very serious trouble for ourselves.

There has been broad, strong consensus in the climate science
community that we’d better avoid a warming of 2C (2 Celsius) above
today.
Lance
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“We are certainly not on track for a two-degree temperature increase
at the moment. We are much more on track for a three to four-degree
temperature increase and we need to be thinking about what that
actually means.”

“Certainly, if there’s not a good result at Copenhagen, the
two-degree target will look impossible,” he said. “There’s 18 months
of optimism to hold on to. If by Copenhagen it hasn’t been addressed
then it will look very bleak indeed.”
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Hurricane Gustav & the Houma Nation

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Hurricane Gustav & the Houma Nation

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The Indigenous Environmental Network – PO Box 485 – Bemidji  – MN – 56619

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Global Carbon Emissions Map

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Global Carbon Emissions Map

Here’s a nifty website:

<http://www.carma.org>.

CARMA reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power
companies in every country on Earth. You can type in a zip code and get facts on
emissions and source of energy, e.g., coal, hydro, of every power plant. There are
interactive maps and you can search by  region, etc.

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Massive Evacuation as Millions Hit by India Floods

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Published on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Agence France Presse
Massive Evacuation as Millions Hit by India Floods

PATNA, India – More than 300,000 people trapped in India’s worst floods in 50 years have been rescued but nearly double that number remain stranded without food or water, officials said Saturday.

About 60 people have died and three million have been affected since the Kosi river breached its banks earlier this month on the border with Nepal and changed course, swamping hundreds of villages in eastern Bihar state.

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