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We cannot deny it …

08/12/2013 Nativegrl77

You’ve heard it before.

“Climate change isn’t happening at all.” “You can’t prove that the world is getting warmer.”

Big Oil and Big Coal love these myths. But that’s exactly what they are: myths.

This month, The Climate Reality Project plans to destroy myths like these once and for all. And we need your help to do it. We’re turning the heat up on anti-science deniers in the fossil fuel industry and beyond with our Put the Heat on Denial campaign.

And we’re starting by debunking the myth that climate change isn’t happening.

It’s August and summer is coming to an end, but do you know what? Temperatures keep rising around the world – and there’s no denying it. But Big Oil and Big Coal are doing their best, spending big money to spread big doubt about climate change.

So this week, we need your help to destroy the myth that climate change isn’t happening – because you and I both know it is. Make the deniers feel the heat with some cold, hard facts. We’ve put the key science at your fingertips at RealityDrop.org, so you can set things straight whenever you see online articles repeating denier myths.

So please join Reality Drop and debunk the “It’s not happening” myth. Your voice is so important to spread truth and put the heat on denial.

Thanks for all your hard work,
The Climate Reality Project Team

P.S. Use Twitter to help spread the word about our Put the Heat on Denial campaign – and use the hash tag #HeatOnDenial. Thanks again.

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Say NO to oil drilling

07/17/2013 Nativegrl77

President Obama is deciding whether or not to open up even more of the Arctic for drilling with a new round of lease sales.

This lease sale will start any day now. Tell the president to follow through on the climate promise he delivered in his speech and cancel the sale.

Right now, President Obama is considering whether or not to open up more of the Alaskan Arctic for oil drilling by launching a new round of lease sales for the Chukchi Sea.
Despite Shell’s failures last summer, oil companies are desperate to secure the rights to drill in the Arctic. What’s at stake here isn’t just one of the most beautiful, unspoiled places on earth. But the future of our climate.
We have a real chance to throw a wrench in this Arctic lease sale process before it even begins. It’s expected to start any day, so the time is now to flood the White House with messages telling them to cancel the sale. It’s the perfect opportunity for the President to make good on the climate speech he made just a few weeks ago.
This Arctic lease sale will start any day now. Send an urgent message to President Obama right now telling him to cancel plans for the upcoming Arctic lease sale.
Last year Shell confirmed what experts have been saying all along — that drilling for oil in the Arctic will never be safe. A series of equipment, permit and weather related mishaps along with general incompetence caused the company to pack up and postpone its plans to drill.
There’s more at stake here than just the Arctic. Allowing companies like Shell to drill in the Arctic only deepens our dependence on fossil fuels and speeds up dangerous global climate change.
If the President is truly committed to limiting US carbon emissions, he will cancel this lease sale. This is his chance to back up his inspiring promise to address climate change with real action on the issue.
Tell President Obama that we can’t stop global climate change by opening up more of the Arctic for oil drilling.
A few weeks ago President Obama made a promise to the American people: “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing”.
We do not need to drill for Arctic oil. Wind and solar energy are becoming cheaper and more viable than fossil fuels by the day. And the people who are living in the polluted shadow of coal fired power plants and other dangerous fossil fuel projects are fighting back. Our climate movement is stronger than ever.
We need to make sure President Obama keeps his climate promise by opposing this lease sale and every other fossil fuel project including the Keystone XL pipeline that will only make this problem worse.
I want to be part of the generation that acted. I want our kids and grandkids to look back and be proud of all we accomplished. Fossil fuels played their part in helping to build our society, but their time is over.
Clean energy is here right now. We don’t need this oil. The climate can’t afford it. Join me today in opposing this new round of Arctic lease sales by taking action.
The clean energy revolution has started. We can do this. Our movement is stronger than ever before, and now we have the President on our side.
Sincerely,
Nicky Davies Greenpeace Campaigns Director
P.S. The Arctic lease sale could start any day now. Send President Obama your message today!

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Sustainable energy

07/13/2013 Nativegrl77 2 Comments

If a doctor said your loved one required major surgery to survive, but it would be very difficult to complete, would you take “No, it’s too hard” for an answer?

We didn’t think so. So when climate deniers claim, “Shifting over to clean energy would be too hard and shut down the economy,” we here at The Climate Reality Project politely beg to differ.

Maybe you do too.

We put a man on the moon. We eradicated smallpox. We built a computer that can fit in your pocket. These accomplishments — and so many more — were possible because groups of like-minded, passionate individuals (much like you) saw the future they wanted and worked hard to make it happen.

Big Oil and Big Coal spread big lies claiming that changing to clean energy would cause economic turmoil and finding sustainable solutions to the climate crisis “is too hard.”

But that’s just not the case. We’re already seeing that shifting to clean energy is a whole lot easier than they think. In 2012, renewables accounted for slightly over half of new electric generating capacity worldwide. In the U.S, we’re installing a new solar power system every four minutes. Meanwhile, global investment in clean energy topped out at $244 billion worldwide. In 2009, global investment was just $178 billion — so in just three years that’s a 37 percent climb, and nearly ten times the investment made in 2004.

As we reach the end of August, we need your help to keep the pressure on climate deniers by using Reality Drop. We’re less than 1,000 away from our end-of-month goal of sharing the truth 50,000 times on key articles across the net.

We know the transition to clean energy won’t happen overnight. But it will happen and you can bet it will be sooner rather than later.

With your help, we can get there. Thank you for all your hard work,
The Climate Reality Team

P.S. Help us share the truth about climate change 50,000 times on RealityDrop.org and change the climate conversation today. Don’t forget to use the #HeatOnDenial hash tag on Twitter!

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David Simas, The White House

06/26/2013 Nativegrl77

The carbon pollution that causes climate change isn’t a distant threat, the risk to public health isn’t a hypothetical, and it’s clear we have a moral obligation to act.

The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15 years, and 2012 was the hottest one we’ve ever recorded. When carbon pollutes the air, the risk of asthma attacks increases. When the Earth’s atmosphere fundamentally changes, we see more heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods.

These events also create an economic imperative to act. When farms wash away and crops wilt, food prices go up. Last year, we saw 11 different weather disasters that each cost the United States more than $1 billion.

And confronting this challenge isn’t just about preventing disaster — it’s also about moving America forward in a way that creates hundreds of thousands of good, new, clean energy jobs. It’s about wasting less energy, which saves money for every business and every family in America.

So the debate’s over. It’s time for action.

Here’s what President Obama is announcing today. Check it out, then help to spread the word.

First, he’s laying out a plan to cut carbon pollution in America — by working to cut pollution from power plants, protect the health of our kids, boost clean energy, and revamp our transportation sector for the 21st century. Second, he’s preparing the United States for the impacts of these changes — by building stronger, safer communities and developing resources to make our country more resilient. And finally, he’s leading international efforts to combat global climate change.

We’ve put together a graphic that breaks this all down — from the effects we’re already seeing to the specific actions we’re going to take to lead this fight.

No single step can reverse the effects of climate change, but that’s no excuse for inaction. We have a moral obligation to leave our kids a planet that’s not broken and polluted.

So here’s what we’re going to do:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan

Share President Obama’s plan to make sure people in your community understand why we’re taking these steps and what comes next.

Thanks!

David

David Simas Deputy Senior Advisor White House

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the Fight for Climate Change

06/26/2013 Nativegrl77 1 Comment

Today, President Obama announced his plan to combat climate change. The plan isn’t perfect (nuclear power isn’t part of a responsible solution, and “clean coal” is a myth), but it contains many important steps.

Most importantly, the plan calls for the regulation of carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and an end to U.S. support for new coal plants overseas. These are monumental steps in the right direction.

CLICK HERE TO TELL THE PRESIDENT YOU SUPPORT THESE STEPS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

With the president’s leadership—and our support—we can continue to develop solutions that will protect our health, create jobs, cut energy costs for families and businesses, and give us cleaner, safer energy.

So, we need your help. Send a letter to the president today!

-The Earth Day Network Team

CLICK HERE TO TELL THE PRESIDENT YOU SUPPORT THESE STEPS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

So, we need your help. Send a letter to the president today!

-The Earth Day Network Team