20 Climate Change Experts Urge Obama: Lead personally on global warming #ACES

by Emily Gertz · 2009-06-22 13:40:00 UTC
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20 American climate experts have signed an open letter, urging President Obama to put the same personal stamp on curbing global warming, as he is on health care reform:

It is essential that the Waxman-Markey bill, strengthened wherever possible and certainly not weakened, advance into law rapidly. It is also essential that it become the basis for a serious, continuing, and urgent effort on the part of the President to lead the American public into recognition of the scale of the climatic disruption so that the U.S. will embrace still stronger policies to do what we know from scientific investigation is necessary to prevent disastrous climatic alteration.

As we write, we see the unfolding Presidential effort to lead the nation in the area of universal health insurance. We urge the President to initiate an effort at least comparable in the area of climatic change. We recognize the difference in popularity of these two causes, but it is the essence of Presidential leadership to show the way even where adequate public awareness of the risks ahead may be lacking.

After the jump, the entire letter:

Climate Scientists Letter to Obama

Emily Gertz
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