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.

Sierra Nevada Heating Up; Muir’s Glacier Gone

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The Sacramento Bee is starting a major new series coodinated by
veteran writer Tom Knudson on the effects of global warming on the
Sierras.  They are putting very serious resources into this (and
getting a flood of naysayer comments, which sound more and more
pathetic but are a reminder of where a significant portion of the
public still are on the issue).  There is a multi-part series coming
out in print with today’s article as the first, plus a web log and other
useful resources online at http://www.sacbee.com/sierrawarming/

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http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sierra_summit/2008/08/014259html

Sierra warming: Climate change puts heat on high country

By Tom Knudson – tknudson@sacbee.com

Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, August 3, 2008

Standing atop Yosemite’s tallest peak in August 1950, Hal
Klieforth looked out across the Lyell glacier and marveled at how
solid and unyielding it appeared.

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Sketchy Rainfall Plagues Australia

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“Catchments around dams require a certain amount of dampening
before surplus run-off begins to enter storages….Spring rains this
year will need to contend with drier catchments.”
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The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
August 2, 2008 – 12:00AM

Some rain tumbled down in July,
but it’s not dam good enough
Peter Ker

THE grass may look green, but don’t be fooled into thinking July was
a wet month.

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Heavy Monsoon in American Southwest

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Southwestern Monsoon brings nearly double normal rain
Standing water can bring mosquitoes
B. POOLE Published: 07.31.2008

It has been a wet, blustery monsoon, and that’s just the way a University of Arizona researcher called it in June.

On June 4 – weeks before the rains came – atmospheric sciences professor Christopher Castro called for an early start to the rainy season with more expected than average in June and July.

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