WHEREAS... Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time; and...
WHEREAS... Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by fossil fuel consumption, deforestation and other human activities can trap heat in our atmosphere for 100 years or longer - with devastating environmental consequences; and...
WHEREAS... Current U.S. policy on climate change is one of indifference, out of step with world opinion, at a time when our damaging greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase...
THEREFORE... I urge you to co-sponsor and support, in every way you can, Senator John McCain and Senator Joe Lieberman's bipartisan Climate Stewardship Act, a bill to create national caps on greenhouse gas emissions.
Please respond letting me know whether you will or will not support the Climate Stewardship Act. Thank you.