1. Global Warming on the Hot Seat
Today, U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) should
include their Climate Stewardship Act (S. 139) in the U.S. Energy Bill.
This groundbreaking legislation could be the turning point in a fight against
global warming. In contrast with President Bush's voluntary-only cuts in
global warming pollution from power plants, this new plan *requires* cuts
in U.S. emissions of the heat-trapping gasses that cause global warming.
Let the U.S. government know that the whole world supports U.S. efforts to
curb global warming! The U.S. is the world's number-one emitter of global
warming pollution, and alternative fuels exist TODAY that could solve this
problem. Please sign this petition to demonstrate your support for the
McCain-Lieberman global warming bill and actions to stop global warming;
even if you are not from the United States, sign this petition to show how
far reaching the concern about global warming is.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/ Emergency Campaign on Global Warming
2. Global Warming Hits Seals and Polar Bears
Shrinking Arctic ice caps are threatening arctic animals. Polar bears find it
harder to find the food as icebergs, their "highways" to a seal food supply,
shrink away, or as ice that normally forms fails to appear. The giant white
bears need the ice to gain access to ringed and barbed seals which live and
play away from land among the ice bergs, yet the ice is breaking up two weeks
earlier than normal these days, and polar bears are on average between 176 and
187 pounds lighter. Scientists believe it is because they cannot find food.
Every day of ice hunting is critical, as the bears must hunt to build enough
fat to last through the forced 5 month fast during winter.
Unseasonal warming can also lead to collapses of the snow caves where female
seals bear their young. The young as yet have no blubber and die of exposure
when cold conditions return. Scientists suspect that declines in seal
populations will occur in this manner, and will ultimately lead to further
declines in polar bear populations.
3. Inspirational Quote:
"Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously
pristine"
- David R. Brower
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少吹冷氣 少吃肉 少騎車 節省用電
請保護大自然....
Love on Nature, mother of all.
Ptt生態保育版 版名: Ecophilia
C)分類看板 - 10)生活娛樂館 - 3)HappyLiving - 4)Ecophilia
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