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.

Rising Ocean Acidity Threatens Low-Lying Islands

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Rising ocean acidity threatens low-lying islands
Mon Jun 2, 2008 5:09am EDT

By Michael Perry

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Rising acidity in the ocean caused by seas absorbing greenhouse carbon dioxide could make low-lying island nations like Kiribati and the Maldives more vulnerable to storms as their coral reefs struggle to survive, say scientists.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in the past 650,000 years, possible 23 million years, and half has now been dissolved into the oceans making them more acidic.

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Satellite Images Reveal Papua-New Guinea Forest Destruction

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Satellite images reveal Papua forest destruction
Mon Jun 2, 2008 3:40am EDT

By Michael Perry

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thirty years of satellite imagery of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests has revealed destruction on such a rapid scale that by 2021 most accessible forest will be destroyed or degraded, a study released on Monday said.

Papua New Guinea has the world’s third largest tropical rainforest, after the Amazon and the Congo, and its government is seeking compensation for conserving its forests as carbon-traps to help reduce global greenhouse gases.

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New Climate Report Counters Bush Administration’s Record of “Denial, Disinformation, Cover-Up, and Delay”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 29, 2008
5:40 PM

CONTACT: Government Accountability Project
Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch Director Email: director@climatesciencewatch.orgor
Dylan Blaylock, GAP Communications Director Phone: 202.408.0034 ext 137, 202.236.3733 Email: dylanb@whistleblower.org

New Climate Report Counters Bush Administration’s Record of “Denial, Disinformation, Cover-Up, and Delay”
Years-Overdue Scientific Assessment Report Produced Under Federal Court Order

WASHINGTON, DC – May 29 – A report released today by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States, summarizes evidence of global climate disruption, the harmful impacts it is already having on society and the environment, and future projections of potential damages. The report, years overdue under a requirement of law, was produced only in response to an August 2007 federal court order that an assessment be produced by May 31, 2008.

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Former Tropical Storm Arthur Flooding Southern Mexico

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Storm Arthur threatens flooding in southern Mexico
Sun Jun 1, 2008 6:20pm EDT

By Chris Aspin

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Arthur, the first of the year in the Atlantic, weakened to a depression over Mexico on Sunday but still dumped torrential rain across the south of the country that threatened to create floods.

Arthur, which had been forecast to move early Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico where there are many oil installations, was still overland and was seen moving farther inland in coming hours and then losing punch.

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