The votes are in, and … half of the members of the US Senate don’t believe humans cause climate change.
This is a national embarrassment. Differences of opinion are one thing, but it’s far more troubling when half of the members of our most distinguished legislative body simply ignore facts supported by overwhelming scientific consensus.
Let’s take the Senate to school. Sign the climate science petition — when we get 50,000 signatures, Avaaz will run a poll quizzing schoolchildren on climate, then launch ads in the biggest papers showing that the US Senate is failing science class compared to middle schoolers. Sign now:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/schooling_the_senate_on_climate_science_re/?bVYyJab&v=52978
Things are bad in Washington. The first real legislation the new Senate passed this year? To build the climate-wrecking Keystone XL pipeline. The new chair of the Senate’s environmental committee is James Inhofe, the Senate’s climate denier-in-chief who quotes the Bible to claim humans can’t change the planet. But the climate science report from the National Academies of Science — commissioned by Congress itself — says the exact opposite!
The report’s #1 finding was that “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by human activities, and poses significant risks to humans and the environment.” Going against this is like asking mathematicians for a number line, then saying that 1 is smaller than zero.
Deep down, most of the Senators who voted against scientific fact must know they’re full of it. The American people do — a new report just found that a majority want Congress to do more on climate. And our best shot at changing the game is to publicly embarrass them. Sign on now, and help teach Congress a lesson that even 8th graders know:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/schooling_the_senate_on_climate_science_re/?bVYyJab&v=52978
Human-caused climate change is no joke. That so many of our supposed leaders are so out of step with basic science, settled years ago, means that the people are going to have to lead on this one. That’s a role the Avaaz community knows how to fill — we did it in New York in September with the People’s Climate March, and we can do it again now.
With hope,
Terra, David, John, Nataliya, Fatima, Ricken, and the Avaaz team
SOURCES
National Academy of Sciences “Climate Choices” Report summary
http://dels.nas.edu/Report/America-Climate-Choices-2011/12781
So Much Senate Climate Change Trolling (Think Progress)
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/21/3614028/so-much-senate-climate-change-trolling/
US Senate refuses to accept humanity’s role in global climate change, again (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/us-senate-man-climate-change-global-warming-hoax
Most Americans support government action on climate change (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/politics/most-americans-support-government-action-on-climate-change-poll-finds.html
Exposing the Big Game 
Remember, some of these people are also the ones who want to take the Sermon on the Mount and everything Jesus said about helping others out of the Bible. Yet, they claim to be Christians – the word that means “follower of Christ”. I’ve signed the petition and others just like it.
Karl Marx said, “Religion is the opiate of the people.” It has never changed, and never will.
Humans are so full of themselves, their needs, their perceived “importance” on this planet, that they will be standing soon at the precipice of planetary destruction–with their mouths hanging open– in disbelief of the terrible reality facing all beings: the end of Earth’s Life Support System & Biodiversity. Homo sapiens is the Rogue Primate, an horrendous accident of luck, that has sucked Nature to death. Our demise will not be missed, but what of all the other millions of species that will go down as well? They are crucial to the very Life Support System of this planet. As planetary systems fail, this once-beautiful planet will become a barren wasteland, because of Homo sapiens’ destructiveness.
http://www.foranimals.org
Well said!
Their mouths will never be as agape as the mouths of those having to accept the real tragedy–that their team lost the Super bowl.
And a lot of others (religious or not) think that climate change is ‘happening outside of us’ without making the connection that we have caused it by overpopulation. How can we do anything about climate change with our numbers continuing to grow? Even if we didn’t add one more person to the roster, we still have more than 7 billion people on the planet right now. Even raising cattle would have much less of an impact if we didn’t have to raise so many of them. It’s only going to get worse for animals and people in the future – I can’t even imagine how we are going to do it. CA is going to be in a permanent drought because we’ve tried to turn a desert into golf courses, farmland and one of the most highly populated states in the nation – by damming and changing the course of rivers and other bodies of water. Now we want to desalinate the oceans – I get this image of humanity sucking up all the water in a straw like a milkshake a la Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. An article was posted today about the future of Chinook salmon being very dim, as the water they had spawned in was too warm and were destroyed, and/or is disappearing:
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/for_california_salmon_drought_and_warm_water_mean_trouble/2834/
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But don’t fret – man in his arrogance believes he can create a genetically modified, vastly inferior, supersalmon to take their place!
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