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.

Paleo-Climatology and Near-Extinction of Humans

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“Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago,
extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small
numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction.”
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Associated Press
Apr 24 06:15 PM US/Eastern

Study says near extinction threatened people
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – Human beings may have had a brush with extinction
70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human
population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in
Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis
released Thursday.

The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford
University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as
low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone
Age.

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First Nationwide Climate Change Survey of Public Health Departments Not Promising

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 24, 2008
12:12 PM

 CONTACT: Environmental Defense Fund
Jennifer Dickson, Environmental Defense Fund, (202) 572-3401 or (202) 520-1221
Becky Wexler, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), (301) 652-1558
Tara Laskowski, George Mason University, (703) 993-8815
 
 
First Nationwide Climate Change Survey of Public Health Departments
Shows Lack of Resources for Dealing with Health Challenge
 
WASHINGTON, DC – April 24 – Climate change is a concern to most local public health directors but few have resources to tackle the problem, according to a national survey conducted by National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and George Mason University.
The survey, included in the report Are We Ready? Preparing for the Public Health Challenges of Climate Change, is the first national one of its kind that assesses the perceptions and activities of local public health directors regarding climate change and public health.

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FALSE SOLUTION: Sulphate Spraying Into Stratosphere

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Plan to reverse global warming could backfire
Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:14pm EDT  By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth’s stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said on Thursday.

They said trying to cool off the planet by creating a kind of artificial sun block would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by 30 to 70 years and create a new loss of Earth’s protective ozone layer over the Arctic.

“What our study shows is if you actually put a lot of sulfur into the atmosphere we get a larger ozone depletion than we had before,” said Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, whose research appears in the journal Science.

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IEN Statement on Climate at the UNPFII in NYC

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For Posting:

INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
At the 7th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Intervention on Climate: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
As part of the “Road of Destruction” campaign of the Indigenous Environmental
Network, Indigenous grassroots representatives from communities traveled to New York
City, New York to make a statement to the Indigenous Peoples of the world and world
government leaders and UN agencies on the issue of climate change and fossil fuels.
The following statement (intervention) was read to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. All statements were limited to 3 minutes and even
though our collective statement should have been much longer, we respected the
policy and limited our words to the 3 minute limit. Our delegation recognized many
of the other statements given by Indigenous peoples from around the world. However,
we recognized the link to fossil fuels was not being highlighted. Casey
Camp-Horinek, of the Ponca Nation was selected by the IEN delegation to read the
intervention. As a member of concerned Ponca tribal members, Casey Camp has been
fighting for environmental and health issues in the shadow of the international
headquarters of the Conoco-Phillips refinery and the Carbon Black coke processing
plant. After the statement was read, Casey asked for all Indigenous Peoples that are
affected by oil, gas, coal and fossil fuel development, to please stand up. Almost
the whole assembly stood up. This visual action demonstrated the need of
CO2olonalism and petro politics to be addressed. IEN with support of Indigenous
organizations throughout the world are demanding the Permanent Forum to call for an
EMERGENCY WORLD SESSION of the UN General Assembly to address this issue (please see
the Recommendation at the end of the statement below). Climate change is an
Indigenous rights issue!

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