Dear Friends of the Climate Crisis Coalition and Signers of the Kyoto and Beyond Petition.

The Climate Crisis Coalition is now offering a free climate news digest by email, providing easy access to breaking climate-related stories. You can sign up for our CCC Newsfeed on our recently revamped website (www.climatecrisiscoalition.org) – it’s in the right-hand column. We only ask for your name, email and zip code. (We never share this information with other parties.) You choose “Weekdays and Sundays” or “Sundays only.” Previous issues are found at our News Digest Archive.

The weekday edition of our Newsfeed provides summaries and links to 5-10 recent and compelling stories about global warming and what people are doing to fight it. We are constantly amazed at the range of stories we have to choose from, many of which are provided to us by our readers. The Sunday edition provides a review of the top stories of the week, as well as stories that have broken since the Friday edition..

We are copying below today’s edition of the CCC Daily Newsfeed. Next Sunday will send you a copy of the CCC Newsfeed Weekend Edition. But that will be it. To continue receiving the Newsfeed, you’ll have to go to our site and sign up! (www.climatecrisiscoalition.org)

Of course, if you find that our daily or weekly emails are too much (climate news can get a bit daunting – another reason for our emphasis on what people are doing and can do) you can always unsubscribe, but remarkably few people have chosen to do this. We think that you will find our Newsfeed to be a worthwhile service, and we hope you will join our rapidly growing list of subscribers.

Best regards,

Tom Stokes
CCC Coordinator

P.S. When you go to our website, be sure to check out the information about the upcoming April 29th March for Peace, Justice and Democracy and the April 30th National Strategy Meeting. We are playing a major role in both. This last weekend in April can be an important milestone in our efforts to slow, stop and reverse global warming and to turn our country around!

Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Click the highlighted headlines for links to these stories.

Kerry: Let review of Cape Wind proceed. By Kevin Dennehy, Cape Cod Times, April 4, 2006. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged colleagues Tuesday to allow a review of a proposed 130-turbine wind farm in federal waters on Nantucket Sound to continue its course without the added hurdle of a congressional amendment to allow Massachusetts to veto the Cape Wind project. Kerry contacted Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who is on the House-Senate conference committee considering the measure authored by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. If approved, the project could be the nation’s first offshore wind farm.

World’s forests continue to shrink. By Elizabeth Mygatt, Earth Policy Institute, April 4, 2006. Using data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Mygatt reports comprehensively on continuing deforestation and degradation throughout the world. The worst deforestation is in Africa, the second-worst in South America. In the last five years the net loss of forests has totaled some 37 million hectares (91 million acres). “A healthy planet needs healthy forests. Thriving forests regulate the water cycle and stabilize soils. Forests also help moderate climate by soaking up and storing carbon dioxide. In addition to these ecosystem services, forests provide habitat for diverse flora and fauna, offer cultural, spiritual, and recreational opportunities, and provide a variety of food, medicines, and wood.”

Methane flux and hydrology in Arctic tundra worrisome. EGU Media, April 4, 2006. Rises in both air temperature and river-discharge rates in the Northeast Siberian tundra are spurring fears that a powerful “feedback” related to increasing methane release will further accelerate the rate of global warming, according to a European Geosciences Union report.

Antarctic ice core reveals new data on climate change. India Times, April 4, 2006. “An ice core bored to a depth of 3 km in the Antarctic is providing new information on climate change in the past. A European research team, including members from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the German city of Bremerhaven, has conducted tests on the ice, which is up to 740,000 years old and is considered the world’s longest ice core. The core … reveals more than eight successive alternations of cold and warm periods.”

One Japanese ministry starts early-lights-out campaign. Agence France-Presse, April 4, 2006. “Japan's Environment Ministry has ordered workers to leave and lights to go off at its headquarters by 8:00 pm in a fresh campaign to cut greenhouse gases.”

‘Green’ Fund Founder Takes Questions. Grist Magazine, April 3, 2006. Carsten Henningsen, cofounder Portfolio 21, “a global mutual fund investing for a sustainable future,” answers questions from Grist.

We encourage readers to forward issues of CCC Newsfeed to friends and associates, with a cover note explaining that one can sign on for free at our website:www.climatecrisiscoalition.org (on the upper right, under "News About Climate Change"). For back issues visit our News Digest Archive.