DEAR Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--if I may be so familiar, as you are with me in your fund-raising emails.
You are campaigning for our nation's highest office in a year of record-breaking heat waves, droughts, floods, and monster storms. More than half the contiguous U.S. is under drought conditions. In June wildfires destroyed 1.3 million acres across the country. More than 40,000 daily heat records were broken-by July.
Climate scientists tell us that the signals are loud and clear: We are experiencing global warming-NOW. Our climate is changing, more and more rapidly--because of greenhouse gas pollution. We have compromised the thin crust of atmosphere that protects our lives on this planet.
The weather is sending us a clear message: Danger. Danger. Danger.
Sirs: What is your message?
American families are looking to you for leadership on climate change--before it becomes catastrophic climate chaos.
I'm a mom, and like all parents, I want to do everything I can to keep my children out of harm's way. I assume you feel the same way about your beloved children. What is your plan to talk to Americans about the urgency of climate change, not only for us, but for the world our children--and your children--will inherit?
What is your plan to lead the country into a new era of energy efficiency? What is your plan to cut the carbon and methane pollution that is contributing so heavily to the atmospheric "blanket" that is trapping heat?
Whether we are Republicans or Democrats or Independents-waiting for more information about our candidates to decide how we vote--we are all in this together. Please, talk to us about global warming.
Give us more than hope. Give us a plan of action.
Change is here. Climate change.
Give us a plan to end greenhouse gas pollution. NOW.
Thank you.
He has all the info, bad guys, good guys and complete weather records.
Warning though- it's a sobering trip.
And I still say get your a$$e$ out there and support the energy innovators- at the very least.
Neither one of those will help the climate.
I simply think if TV meteorologists are uniquely positioned to impact the way Americans understand climate change. While even the most environmentally-friendly citizens might struggle to name a climatologist, almost everyone has a meteorologist whom they know and trust. If meteorologists were to start speaking directly about the local consequences of climate change their viewers would take notice and it would help cut through the unnecessary controversy that currently surrounds climate change.
After building a database of nearly 1,200 meteorologists the site is now up and running. Hopefully it can do some good.
That's why Dr. Stein deserves media attention and to be involved in presidential debates. But don't hold your breath, those of you who think Climate Change "must" not only become a major political issue to solve but may/will crush the American and global economies.
It will not happen because Americans will let the issue pass until it destroys all we know. Why? -- because people simply accept this destruction as part of the new normal.
Demand that the news media listen to -- and report -- Dr. Jill Stein's well-researched platform and be allowed to participate in the presidential debates.
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