Please Help Me Support Al Gore's Work

[RestoreGore]

As we now pass into a new year, the window on our planet is closing even more. Recent events are making it clearer that Al Gore's words of warning in bringing the message of climate scientists to the people are coming true. This is not the time to continue to sit on our hands waiting for some event to come along to magically bring it back, because that will not happen without our intervention. This year of 2007 is going to be crucial for the future sustainability of this planet. Which is why I ask for your help.

If you have been following what I have tried to do this past year, you then know that I wrote a letter to Kofi Annan at the UN to request that the post of Global Environmental Ambassador be institutued with Mr. Gore being considered to be the first to fill this post. I received a very professional letter in return stating that Mr. Annan (who is no longer Secretary General) and the UN at this time were not considering such a position, but they thanked me for my conviction and activism on this issue. It was not too long after the receipt of that second letter that Mr. Gore did his presentation at the UN, so hopefully my letter had something to do with that.

Throughout the year I have been trying to inform and educate people about the catastrophe that awaits us should we not change our ways regarding the effect we are having on our planet through my writing and other efforts. With the release of An Inconvenient Truth last May, Mr. Gore and the producers have managed to raise awareness of this crisis and our part in it to a level that will hopefully be sustained enough in the new year to warrant some real progress on mitigating it.

However, that will not happen unless we take the information he and climate scientists have given us seriously and pledge to take the next step, which is to help him spread this information and to also change our own lifestyles in ways that will help preserve this planet and slow down the process of climate change which is already being seen in glaciers across this world regarding rapid melting that has put our own species and others such as rocker penquins and polar bears at risk of extinction, longer and more sustained and severe droughts that are affecting life and livelihoods already in over 35% of our world, acidic oceans unable to sustain the bio chain that links us all together, and other effects that are costing us economically and personally our only home.

Pledge To Be A Climate Messenger

This petition will then be sent by me to Mr. Gore directly to Nashville, TN. at the end of this month to show him the amount of support people have for his work on the climate crisis, and to show their signatures pledging to help him with it by becoming climate messengers. We can all do it this year. This can be the year we finally show our Earth that we truly do care for her and are ready to stand up for her and our future.

There is also no partisan political spin or speculation attached to it. It is open to anyone who cares for our only home and who wishes to help Mr. Gore and others truly begin to start work on addressing it in this coming year before that window closes by making changes in your own life, inspiring and educating others, demanding comprehensive and realistic legislation from state and local governments, and demanding changes in the way we do business. This is no joke, and this is not an issue just to be used as a political platform to get votes in an election. This is about our very survival and is a moral issue.

Any sincere signatures any of you would then like to add to this petition that will go to Mr. Gore would then be appreciated. He needs to know we support his work based on its merits and that we stand ready to help him with it. I applied for his training in Nashville but was not selected even though I do believe everyone who applied should have been because we need all the people we can now get to learn about this. However, that does not mean I am giving up on getting out word about this planetary catastrophe we must fix for our children or supporting Al Gore in his efforts regarding it.

If you have seen the reports about the huge Ayles ice shelf that just fell off in the Arctic, or the total sinking of Locachara Island in India because of rising and warming seas, you will see that this is happening now and that we have a moral duty to stop it with the very hands that are causing it...Ours. Therefore, please show your support and feel free to pass it on to others who might also be interested in signing this to him for our planet.

People can sit on Internet forums all day wasting time arguing over whether Mr. Gore has or has not definitvely ruled out running for anything... but it doesn't solve anything now. I believe signing this petition is one way of showing him that people care about his efforts not based solely on a personal political agenda, but because we believe in the urgency of this crisis and want to help him now.

Thank you.

Also see my entry on helping him hold the feet of Congress to the fire:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x29802

[SaveElmer]

1. Done...nt

[RestoreGore]

3. Thank you n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. what the hell...

I was already spreading the word anyway. :) done.

[RestoreGore]

9. Thank you n/t

[InvisibleTouch]

4. Signed it the last time you posted the link.

Glad you're back! :)

[RestoreGore]

5. Thank you

The last time was a misjudgment on my part that I did apologize for. Thanks for signing and helping!

[Swamp Rat]

6. Al Gore is my President

:kick:

[RestoreGore]

8. Mine too, and he needs our help now. n/t

[RestoreGore]

7. Letter to my town: one way to help spread the word

This will be printed in my town paper this week and will reach over sixty thousand people. That is the impact ONE letter can have. You too can do this and reach thousands. You don't need to learn the slideshow to do it either. Just do it from your heart.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Address the Climate Crisis

As of December 28, 2006, 353 mayors representing over 54 million Americans have accepted the challenge of The Mayor’s Initiative on Climate Change, with XXXX being one of those cities. However, I am not aware of what is being done in order for XXXX to comply with this initiative. Is there a department in the municipal government dealing with getting out information to the residents of this city regarding the affects of the climate crisis we are now seeing throughout this world? If not, there should be.

I also donated a copy of the important film, An Inconvenient Truth which brings out the truth of these affects and what we can do as citizens to address them to the Science Dept at XXXX High School last month. However, I have no idea if it will even be shown to the students as a whole by the XXXX Board of Education, and it should be. As a matter of fact, it is a moral imperative that this film be shown to the entire XXXX community free of charge in order to make them aware of exactly what our behavior is doing to alter our relationship with our planet, and how that will affect our future and especially the future of our children. I would be more than happy to provide my copy for that purpose.

There is no longer a debate that humans are causing climate change. It is a known scientific fact that the spewing of CO2 into our atmosphere (now at the rate of 70 million tons a day) and other gases such as methane is causing the rapid acceleration of glacier melt that we are seeing from the United States, to South America, to the Himalayas, to Africa, to New Zealand, to the Arctic and Greenland. Not only will this drastically change temperature, but also weather patterns, rainfall patterns, and global warming will increase because less ice at the top of the world soaks in more sun rather than reflecting the proper amount of infrared rays back to space to stabilize our climate. This will have catastrophic affects on our future if we do not work to reign in our rapacious use of fossil fuels.

The climate crisis is now also causing our oceans to become more acidic, which is bleaching our coral and killing necessary organisms that provide balance to that ecosystem, as well as plunging almost 35% of this world into more severe and sustained drought, which is leading to life threatening water and food shortages which are only predicted to intensify by 2025 if this is left unchecked. Locachara Island in India is the first casualty of rising seas and the Ayles ice shelf in the Arctic broke off 16 months ago and was the length of 11,000 football fields! Global warming is cited by scientists as the cause, and it is real. NASA, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Science Academy, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, as well as other scientific organizations have all corroborated this and have been warning us about what we are doing to our planet by our own hand, as former Vice President Al Gore has also been doing for almost thirty years, which is related in his prescient movie An Inconvenient Truth.

We are now seeing those warnings that have not been heeded for the last thirty years coming full circle, and we cannot ignore them any longer. Therefore, I then call upon Mayor XXXXXXXX to publicly address this crucial issue and to provide the means of getting out information to the residents of XXXX regarding this crisis and what we can do in our own daily lives now to lesson our carbon impact on the world. It is the duty of our representatives to inform the people and provide a means for addressing problems. I hope to see that in the near future. Anyone reading this who would like more information on this can also go to: http://www.climatecrisis.net.

Thank you,
XXX XXXXX

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Done -- K & R

[RestoreGore]

11. Very much appreciated n/t

[northofdenali]

12. Done. K&R -

Al Gore is the best stateman to happen to us in a long, long, long time.

[RestoreGore]

13. You got that right.

Love this man.

[nam78_two]

14. K&R.nt

[RestoreGore]

15. Mr. Gore In Scotland Today

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1124472.0.pupils_get_to_quiz_al_gore_and_hans_blix.php

And he will be following this luncheon up with a talk to business leaders regarding the environment.

[RestoreGore]

16. More On Mr. Gore In Edinburgh

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1122048.0.gore_event_set_to_boost_scottish_ecobusinesses.php

[mdelaguna2000]

17. Any way to sign this without having your name posted on the web for all to see?

It's a good cause - don't mind my name going to Al Gore, but hesitant for it to be publicly read by other signees.

[RestoreGore]

18. Yes, absolutely...

Send me your name (and your town if you wish) in an e-mail, and I will add it to the petition when I mail it off to him. And thank you.