Gore collects nearly 300,000 signatures on climate change (needs more)

[Shoelace]

if you've not yet signed this petition, please do. Gore wants 350,000 signatures by the time he appears before Congress. Here's the site:

http://www.algore.com/index-splash.html

March 16, 2007, 5:57PM
Gore gets signatures for climate change
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday.

"Political will is a renewable resource, and enough already exists to start solving this crisis," Gore said. "We just have to communicate that forcefully to the political leaders of our country."

As of Friday morning, Gore's Web site had received 294,374 signatures. Gore called on supporters to urge friends and family to come up with enough new signatures for him to collect 350,000 by Wednesday.

Gore said members of Congress have "failed to act, because they have not yet faced a sufficient expression of political will on the part of the American people demanding they confront our climate crisis head on."

Gore, who starred in the documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming, has said repeatedly he has no plans to join the field of 2008 Democratic presidential aspirants.

But Gore's unwillingness to rule out a run completely has given some activists hope that he might change his mind. Gore lost his home state in the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush.

Gore said there is a consensus on global warming among scientists.

"The debate on the science has long been over — except for a diminishing number of skeptics and deniers," he said.

Gore cited findings reported last month by the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change reported that global warming is so severe that it will "continue for centuries," leading to a far different planet in 100 years.

The panel, established by the United Nations, concluded that global warming is "very likely" caused by man, meaning more than 90 percent certain.

If nothing is done to change current emissions patterns of greenhouse gases, global temperature could increase as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, the report said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/4638270.html

[jean]

1. that is an exquisitely simple form to fill out, thanks for the link

[Pierzin]

2. Welcome to DU, Shoelace! DRASTIC ACTION is needed

I was listening to Mike Malloy the other day, and what he said really makes sense. It went something like this; If our forefathers knew that they were killing the planet you have to beleive that they would do something about it and change what they were doing. In the old Indian tribes, if you raped a member of the tribe, they took you out onto a tide flat somewhere and left you there. That was your punishment for doing something heinous and evil against another member of the tribe.
America is that tribal member at this point, ladies and gentlemen. I am with Mike Malloy on this one. The world must take drastic steps to alter what is happenning. It is a travesty that the US Congress heard Al Gore testify years ago and has done absolutely nothing about it. We have witnessed for decades glaciers falling off of the coasts of Alaska, and it was/and is a great tourist attraction.
But it won't be for long. America, as the greatest sinner here, must make drastic changes. We must make drastic changes NOW. We, and the other industrialized nations, have already altered the planets atmosphere for the past 150 years. We must have far more efficient cars, to start. We must immediately or as soon as possible stop the horrible rates of air pollution nationwide, we must stop commiting rape against the planet.
If you haven't seen "Crude Impact", get it, and see it. It will change your life. It sure changed mine.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net I could go on and on about this...

[Shoelace]

3. thanks Pierzin, great to be here! Get your friends to sign

Gore's petition. It's a small step but next week when he testifies before the House subcomittee, he'll need all the help he can get to wake these folks up.

I feel your pain and am with you 100% on all counts. We've got to work overtime to get the message out there!

[Cha]

4. Thank you, Shoelace..it is my pleasure

to add my name to the sigs that Gore takes to Congress.

[halobeam]

5. kick..we need more signatures.....

[newyawker99]

6. kick for Al!!

:kick: