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.

U.S. Scientists Facing Politocal Repression

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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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Climate Change and War

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Published on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by The Telegraph/UK

Climate Change ‘May Put World at War’
By Charles Clover

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space programme, will be needed if the world is to avoid the worst effects of changing temperatures.

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CO2, Methane Up Sharply in 2007

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CO2, methane up sharply in 2007
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:55pm EDT  
 
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The amount of two key greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere rose sharply in 2007, and carbon dioxide levels this year are literally off the chart, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday.

In its annual index of greenhouse gas emissions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, rose by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons last year.

The amount of methane increased by 0.5 percent, or 27 million tons, after nearly a decade of little or no change, according preliminary figures to scientists at the government’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Colorado.

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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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