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 -- 少吹冷气 少吃肉 少骑车 节省用电 请保护大自然.... Love on Nature, mother of all. Ptt生态保育版 版名: Ecophilia C)分类看板 - 10)生活娱乐馆 - 3)HappyLiving - 4)Ecophilia --

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