Target: US Senate
Sponsor: Care2
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736690722

On February 10th, 2005 Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman introduced the Climate Stewardship Act. This legislation is a bipartisan, and business friendly effort to reduce the threat of global warming by limiting the pollution creating the problem. But without your help the bill will stall.

Amid the threat of rising oceans, increasingly extreme weather and recent reports of dramatic increases in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, few would argue that addressing global warming is not a burning issue. On February 16th Russia became the 122nd country to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Framework for addressing global warming. And counties like China and New Zealand have moved forward with even more aggressive approaches to combat global warming. Yet the United States, responsible for a quarter of the greenhouse gasses, has failed to take any significant action.

It is time we act, and every day we wait the consequences become more grave. Already we can observe that climate change is affecting animal populations. Penguin populations have declined by 33 percent over the past 30 years because of decline winter sea-ice habitat. In Canada more and more Polar Bears are starving because of the early break up of icepack. And critically endangered species, already threatened by population growth, poaching, and disease, are now being threatened by habitat loss due to climate changes. The world acts, and we wait – leaving animals like Gorillas and Pandas at risk.

Sign the petition below, call and urge your senators and representatives to support the Climate Stewardship Act (and if you are feeling really gung-ho, impress upon them the importance of getting the US to sign !)
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