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Archive for August, 2008

ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia’s Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper Consumption

Gunns of Australia’s controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawal
TAKE ACTION! Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to [...]

RELEASE: RAN Sells-Out Canadian Boreal Forests

Press/Social Media Release
Rainforest Action Network greenwashes destruction of half of Ontario, Canada’s boreal forests; despite lack of any detail regarding vague promised protections, and without scientific findings that doing so is ecologically sufficient
By Earth’s Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075
(Earth) — Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of San Francisco has long [...]

What If Global Warming is Non-Linear

The interesting and potentially life-defining question of “what if global warming is non-linear” [ark] is worthy of consideration. That is, if we continue to increase carbon emissions, global warming may increase exponentially — ever resulting in more change per unit of pollution — and causing crises much more rapidly. Such abrupt climate change is a [...]

Arctic Going to Hell in a Hand-Basket

The Arctic’s alarmingly rapid loss of summer sea ice [search] continues. The fact the ice has not totally melted this year is no consolation, as last year summer sea ice shrank to a record low, and total loss of sea ice — which was predicted to occur in over sixty years only a few years [...]

Australia’s Tepid Overseas Rainforest Aid Provides Little Climate Benefit

PRESS RELEASE
Harnessing ancient primary forests for continued carbon storage requires ending industrial logging, and in Australia too
By Ecological Internet, Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075
(Earth) — Ecological Internet welcomes Australia’s expression of concern about forests and climate change, demonstrated by yesterday’s release of an initial US$2 million in aid [ark] for Asia-Pacific nations to help [...]

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