FALSE SOLUTION: Sulphate Spraying Into Stratosphere

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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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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Scientists Urged to Make Stand on Climate Change

From AAAS EurekAlert : Atmospheric Science

http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/atmospheric.php
Go to the URL above for lengthier, more detailed versions of the blurbs below:

Public Release: 24-Apr-2008
Australasian Science

Scientists urged to make a stand on climate change

Scientists must work harder at making the public
aware of the stark difference between good
science and “denialist spin,” according to a
professor of climate change.

Contact: Professor Barry Brook
barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au
61-883-033-745
University of Adelaide

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U.S. Scientists Facing Politocal Repression

U.S. environment scientists report political meddling
Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:10pm EDT By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 900 scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have experienced political interference in their work in the last five years, the Union of Concerned Scientists reported on Wednesday.

The nonprofit environmental organization said its investigation of EPA was in line with previous probes of other U.S. agencies which found “significant administration manipulation of federal science.”

A government spokesman denied this, and said scientific findings were balanced with policy concerns.

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