Category: RT Newswire

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FALSE SOLUTION: The Carbon Capture/Sequestration Myth Exposed

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Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #959
Thursday, May 15, 2008

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THE CARBON CAPTURE JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON

The coal, oil, automobile, railroad and electric power industries are
planning to “solve” the global warming problem by capturing carbon
dioxide (CO2) and burying it a mile underground, hoping it will stay
there forever. The plan is called CCS, short for “carbon capture and storage” (or sometimes “carbon capture and sequestration”).

Emitting CO2 into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) is thought to be the main human contribution to global warming.

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Prince Charles-Again: “Preserve the Rainforests!”

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Page last updated at 15:31 GMT, Thursday, 15 May 2008 16:31 UK

Charles urges forest logging halt

Prince Charles said there needed to be rewards for preserving the rainforest

The halting of logging in the world’s rainforests is the single greatest solution to climate change, Prince Charles has said.

He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests.

The prince told the BBC that the forests provided the earth’s “air conditioning system”.

He said it was “crazy” the rainforests were worth more “dead than alive” to some of the world’s poorest people.

The world’s forests store carbon in their wood and in their soils.

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US Using Food Crisis To Boost Bio-Engineered Crops

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Published on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 by The Chicago Tribune
US Using Food Crisis To Boost Bio-Engineered Crops
by Stephen J. Hedges

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.0514 03 1

The value of genetically modified, or bio-engineered, food is an intensely disputed issue in the U.S. and in Europe, where many countries have banned foods made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

Proponents say that GMO crops can result in higher yields from plants that are hardier in harsh climates, like those found in hungry African nations.

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Southeast Asian Rainforests, Black-Market Timber, U.S. Consumption

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“Mekong forests are also home to a range of endangered animals,
including the clouded leopard, tiger, and Malayan sun bear.”
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U.S. Major Importer of Illegal Asian Timber, Study Says
Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News
May 13, 2008

Vietnam has become a hub for processing Asia’s
illegally logged timber, much of which is sold in
the United States as outdoor furniture,
conservationists say.

In a report released in March, the U.K.-based
nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency
(EIA) and its Indonesian partner Telapak warned
that the illegal timber trade is threatening some
of the last intact forests in Southeast Asia,
especially in Laos.

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