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.

Ocean Fertilization No Viable Solution

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071129132753.htm [input]

Ocean Fertilization ‘Fix’ For Global Warming Discredited By New Research ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) —

Scientists have revealed an important discovery that raises doubts concerning the viability of plans to fertilize the ocean to solve global warming, a projected $100 billion venture.

Research performed at Stanford and Oregon State Universities suggests that ocean fertilization may not be an effective method of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a major contributor to global warming. Ocean fertilization, the
process of adding iron or other nutrients to the ocean to cause large algal blooms, has been proposed as a possible solution to global warming because the growing algae absorb carbon dioxide as they grow.

However, this process, which is analogous to adding fertilizer to a lawn to help the grass grow, only reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if the carbon incorporated into the algae sinks to deeper waters. This process, which scientists call the “Biological Pump”, has been thought to be dependent on the abundance of algae in the top layers of the ocean. The more algae in a bloom, the more carbon is transported, or “pumped”, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean. Continue reading

False Solution: Damming the Climate

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This is the first case i know of where researchers publicly sidestep the Precautionary Principle. That is scary-especially for something like this.

ASW

For some time now, deniers/debunkers have claimed that climate change is not caused by consumption of forests and fossil fuels. They have claimed that it is caused by normal variations — including tilting of Earth’s axis.

But even the tilting of Earth’s axis may have human causes.

I don’t have references available, but many on this list have seen studies indicating that the world’s hydroelectric and irrigation dams have measurably changed the planet’s tilt on its axis. So a huge dam like the one described below may have worldwide impact for that reason.
Lance Olsen
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Public release date: 6-Dec-2007
Inderscience Publishers

Contact: Roelof Dirk Schuiling
schuiling@geo.uu.nl

Dam the Red Sea and release gigawatts
50 gigawatts of electrical power could be released by damming the Red Sea

Damming the Red Sea could solve the growing energy demands of millions of people in the Middle East and alleviate some of the region’s tensions pertaining to oil supplies through hydroelectric power. Equally, such a massive engineering project may cause untold ecological harm and displace countless people from their homes.

In the Inderscience publication International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Roelof Dirk Schuiling of Utrecht University in The Netherlands and his colleagues discuss the costs and benefits of one of the potentially most ambitious engineering projects ever.

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Indigenous People Shut Out Of, Protest UNFCC in Bali

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Subject: [global-justice-ecology] Indigenous Peoples Protest UNFCCC From:
phiona@globaljusticeecology.org
Date: Fri, December 7, 2007 6:04 am
To: global-justice-ecology@lists.riseup.net
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 December 2007

Indigenous Peoples Protest UNFCCC
Indigenous Peoples shut out of Climate Change Negotiations

Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their systematic exclusion from the UN meeting.

Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from entering the meeting between UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and civil society representatives, despite the fact that the indigenous delegation was invited to attend. This act is representative of the systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples in the UNFCCC process.

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US Threatening Occupation of Ancestral Apache Lands in South Tejas!

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Subject: FW: Lipan Apache Women Defense–need your attention!
From: “wsdp”
Date: Thu, December 6, 2007 4:12 pm
To: wsdp@igc.org
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FY – Please do what you can to support the Lipan Apache – – links are posted
on the bottom. Forward this on..

Western Shoshone Defense Project
So-Ho-Bi (South Fork) office:
775-744-2565 (fax and phone)

Main office:
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
Newe Sogobi
775-468-0230
775-468-0237 (fax)

—–Original Message—–
From: Tamez, Margo [mailto:mtamez@wsu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:43 PM
To

Press Release: For Wide Distribution
From: Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache) December 6, 2007
RE: Chertoff Announces Eminent Occupation of Land Title Holders Refusing to
Sign NSA Waivers

Dear supporters of the Lipan Apache Women Title Holder Defenders:

Ahi’i’e for all your wonderful outpouring of support to our elders of El Calaboz. We need your help on our continuing efforts to protect and keep safe the elders of our struggle against U.S. tyranny.

Today we have serious news to share and to update on the situation unfolding in the traditional lands of the Lipan Apache communities of the Mexico-US militarized border region.

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