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June 30, 2006

RIPIRG readies to warn against global warming / Photo

Journal photo / Kris Craig
RIPIRG director of canvassing Virginia Robnett, center in blue shirt, instructs canvassers on where they will be heading to spread the global warming message.

PROVIDENCE – An inflatable model of the earth that’s “big enough to attract some attention” will help the Rhode Island Public Interest Research Group release a national report here in Rhode Island today, RIPIRG advocate Matt Auten said this morning.

The globe is about 18 feet high and has flames painted on the bottom, Auten said a few minutes before the news conference was set to begin at 10:30 a.m.

With that as their backdrop, environmental activists are releasing “The Carbon Boom,” a national study about trends in global warming pollution since 1960.

Here in Rhode Island, Auten said that modeling shows emissions will remain at current levels. While it’s good they’re not increasing, the state must do more and decrease emissions levels, Auten said.

Find "The Carbon Boom" report online.

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