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.

UN Setting IPCC-like Panel for Global Biodiversity

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Biodiversity advocates have struggled to sound
alarms about the accelerating rate of species
extinction

UN set for IPCC-type panel on biodiversity

BONN, Germany (AFP) – UN members took a key step
here Thursday towards creating a paramount
scientific panel on biodiversity similar to the
Nobel-winning group that helped drive climate
change to the top of the global agenda.

“The process is on track now,” Didier Babin, the
French researcher charged in 2005 with getting
the project off the ground, told AFP.

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Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change

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“When the ice sheets became unstable, they collapsed, releasing
pressure on the clathrates. The clathrates then began to de-gas.”

“‘… an abrupt and catastrophic global warming …”

“Uncovering the methane reservoir could potentially warm the Earth
tens of degrees, he said, and the mechanism could be very rapid.”

“The scientists found the broadest range of oxygen isotopic variation
ever reported from marine sediments, which they attribute to melting
waters in ice sheets as well as destabilization of clathrates by
glacial meltwater.”
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National Science Foundation
Press Release 08-087
<http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111554&org=NSF>

Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change
May 28, 2008

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice
sheets that extended to Earth’s low latitudes some 635 million years
ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF) report in this week’s issue of the
journal Nature.

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First Nations Leaders to be Released From Canadian Gulag

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Good News!!

First Nations leaders to be released from prison: Attorney-General
Canwest News Service Published: Friday, May 23, 2008

 
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TORONTO — Six First Nations leaders will be released from prison today
after serving more than two months for ignoring a court order to allow a
mining company to drill on their traditional territory, a spokesman for
Ontario’s Attorney General confirmed Friday.

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US Government Study Finds Climate Change Impacting Water Availability, Agriculture, and Wildlife

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 27, 2008
4:01 PM

 CONTACT: World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Joe Pouliot
joe.pouliot@wwwfus.org
202-778-9730
 
 
US Government Study Finds Climate Change Impacting Water Availability, Agriculture, and Wildlife
WWF Says Report Shows Urgency of Climate Change Vote in Senate Next Week 
 
WASHINGTON, DC – May 27 – Climate change is fueling forest fires, creating water scarcity, harming animal habitats, and causing other significant changes throughout the United States that will only worsen as global temperatures increase, concludes a new federal government assessment of current and future climate change impacts.

The sobering analysis, prepared by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) – an inter-agency structure that coordinates climate research efforts across the federal government, reinforces the urgent need for Congress to take action on climate change, according to officials at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), who called upon the US Senate to pass the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill (S. 2192) which is scheduled for debate next week.

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