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Great strides to lower CO2

Anyone concerned about climate change? Climate scientists (97+% of them) think we ought to be.

For decades, scientists have made pretty durn good predictions about sea level rise, increased global temperatures, more extreme weather more often, droughts and desertification, heat waves, melting glaciers, increased floods, ocean acidification, early melting of snows, more extreme forest fires, migration of disease, etc… and they predict much worse to come, especially if we dither and delay.

 Doubt and delay is fine for Big Oil and Coal, but, for you and your kids? Not so much. Besides cleaning up our own act, such as CFC bulbs, solar panels, and high mileage cars, each of us, as citizens, can do a great deal to reduce our nation’s emissions. How?

David Bornstein, a writer for the NY Times, has a piece that ran online this week about Citizens Climate Lobby and RESULTS (an advocacy group working on poverty): http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/

 Here's an excerpt: “The Citizens Climate Lobby is taking very sophisticated ideas and putting them into letters and op-eds and face-to-face meetings with members of Congress,” explained Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican who served 12 years in the House of Representatives and now directs the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University. “I think they’ve moved the needle on this issue.” I am a proud member of CCL and hope you add your voice of concern to support our efforts.

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