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.

Sun Cycles Not Key to Current Global Warming

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Sun cycles seen not key to recent global warming
Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:15pm EDT  By Bruce Nichols

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Satellite data show that changes in the sun are contributing to global warming but to a smaller extent than human activity, a space scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington told a group of petroleum geologists on Wednesday.

“The sun is playing a role that you can detect, but it’s not the dominant role,” Judith Lean told a crowded session at the 2008 convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in San Antonio.

Climate-change skeptics have suggested that solar cycles may be more responsible than human activity for increasing global temperature. But Lean said her findings showed “the sun is a factor of 10 less than the anthropogenic.”

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Security Risk From Climate Underestimated

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Security risk from climate said underestimated
Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:29pm EDT  Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single

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Climate change rises on World Bank agenda
10 Apr 2008

By Jeremy Lovell

LONDON (Reuters) – Countries around the world have hugely underestimated
the potential conflicts stemming from climate change and must invest
heavily to correct that mistake, a report said on Wednesday.

The report for Britain’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) by
environment expert Nick Mabey said the response had been “slow and
inadequate” and to rectify it spending needed to surge to levels
comparable to sums spent on counter-terrorism.

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Plans for Massive Water Diversions Make Alberta Province to Watch as Canadian Water Resources Diminish

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2008
8:58 AM

 CONTACT: Ecojustice
Randy Christensen, Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal): (604)328-1633, (604) 685-5618 ext. 234
Danielle Droitsch, Bow Riverkeeper: (403) 678-7964
 
 
Plans for Massive Water Diversions Make Alberta Province to Watch as Canadian Water Resources Diminish – Earth Day Report
 
CALGARY – April 22 – Proposals to move massive volumes of water between river basins in Alberta and to allow its Irrigation Districts to sell water for non-agricultural uses indicate the province may soon be critically short of water, and should serve as a warning to the rest of the country, according to an authoritative report published on Earth Day, April 22.
“Despite what people may think, Canada has just seven per cent of the world’s renewable water supply, and in provinces like Alberta growing water scarcity is testing provincial administrations like never before,” said Randy Christensen, co-author of the report, and a lawyer with the environmental law firm Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund).

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Reducing Deforestation Is Key to Addressing Climate Change, WWF Official Tells Congress

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April 22, 2008
12:00 PM

 CONTACT: World Wildlife Fund
Joe Pouliot
joe.pouliot@wwfus.org
202-778-9730
 
 
Reducing Deforestation Is Key to Addressing Climate Change, WWF Official Tells Congress
 
WASHINGTON, DC – April 22 – National and international plans to combat climate change must address the root causes of deforestation, which is responsible for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) official said in testimony before the U.S. Senate today.
David Hayes, a senior fellow at WWF and former Deputy Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, testified at a hearing on “International Deforestation and Climate Change,” convened by the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection.

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