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.

Destroying Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”

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Published on Monday, July 21, 2008 by Reuters

Destroying Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”
by Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON – The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.

Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.

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How John McCain Doomed Mount Graham

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How John McCain Doomed Mount Graham

Star Whores

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

We waited for a night when the moon was obscured by clouds. It sounded like a silly plan here in the heart of the Arizona desert, where Oregonians stream each year to worship the unrelenting sun.

But the wait was only two days. Then the sky clouded up, just as the Apaches predicted. These weren’t rain clouds, just a smoke-blue skein, thin as morning fog, but dense enough to dull the moonlight and shield our passage across forbidden ground.

We were going to see the scopes. The mountain was under lockdown. Armed guards, rented by the University of Arizona, blocked passage up the new road and patrolled the alpine forest on the crest of Mount Graham. Only certified astronomers and construction workers were permitted entry. And university donors. And Vatican priests.

But not environmentalists. And not Apaches. Not at night, anyway. Not any more.

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EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2008
3:12 PM

CONTACT: Government Accountability Project
Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch Director
director@climatesciencewatch.org
Dylan Blaylock, Communications Director
202.408.0034 ext. 137, 202.236.3733 cell
dylanb@whistleblower.org
 
EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report
 
WASHINGTON – July 17 – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a major study by the US Climate Change Science Program synthesizing current scientific knowledge of climate change-induced threats to human health. This information should be critical to the EPA’s previous “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. However, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, the branch assigned rulemaking responsibility, evidently did not rely on and did not cite the CCSP report.

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