Received this e-mail today from Senator Mark Udall (D. CO), a long time environmental advocate, is joining his colleagues in calling for action on climate change:
It’s getting worse.
For over a decade, NASA satellites have scanned Earth’s surface and measured the size and tenacity of wildfires across the country. According to NASA, the long and intense fire seasons of late are becoming a yearly mainstay.
“Fire seasons are starting earlier, due to warmer spring temperatures and earlier snow melt, and they are lasting longer into the fall.” [NASA 08/09/2013]
Climate change is here, and the worsening wildfires and severe drought across the West are just a couple of many concrete examples that prove it. We can’t continue to ignore this reality. The time to act was yesterday.
Will you join Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Bob Menendez, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and me in calling for immediate action on climate change? Click here to sign our petition:
http://climatechangeactionnow.com/...
Gina McCarthy made Colorado one of her first stops as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and I had the pleasure of introducing her at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gina knows we don’t have to choose between growing our economy and protecting our environment. The two go hand-in-hand. Due in part to a wind energy sector which supports 5,000 jobs in the state, Colorado continues to lead the way on addressing this global threat by growing a robust renewable energy industry that harnesses our wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal capabilities.
President Obama and the EPA are already taking the lead to adapt proven solutions from the state and local levels — solutions that help reduce global warming. But to confront this truly global crisis, the U.S. Senate and each of us has to do our part.
The White House is ready to take action. Are you?
Please join Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Bob Menendez, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and me in calling for immediate action on climate change:
http://climatechangeactionnow.com/...
Thanks,
Mark
You can click here to sign Udall's petition:
http://climatechangeactionnow.com/...
