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Global Warming: Urge Presidential Hopefuls to Take a Stand!

Target: 2008 Presidential Candidates
Sponsored by: League of Conservation Voters

As candidates from all parties are throwing their hats into the ring and traveling the country in search of public support, NOW is the time to make a huge splash. We have a tremendous opportunity to make sure our next president is committed to solving global warming.

Help turn up the heat! Show that solving global warming is a priority. Sign the Heat Is On Petition below. Help us reach 50,000 signatures!

deadline: 2-7-2008
goal: 50,000

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This petition is now closed. We exceeded our goal of 50,000 messages to the 2008 presidential candidates urging them to take a stand on global warming! Want to know what the candidates are saying? The League of Conservation Voters is keeping a running record of statements candidates make on global warming out on the campaign trail - read it all on the The Heat Is On website.

Dear Candidate for U.S. President,

The debate is over. The National Academy of Sciences and thousands of scientists worldwide agree that the planet is warming and that human dependence on fossil fuels - such as coal and oil - is the primary cause. The problem is so urgent that the next 10 years will likely decide the outcome. There is still time to rise to the challenge, but America needs the leadership to do so.

Solving global warming will place the U.S. at the forefront of developing and deploying the clean energy technologies that will dominate the 21st century. When we solve global warming, we will have established a more secure, prosperous and vibrant America.

Nothing short of our children's future is at stake.

As you campaign for your party's presidential nomination, we ask that solving global warming be a central message and a top priority.

We signed the “Global Warming: Urge Presidential Hopefuls to Take a Stand!” petition!

# 50:

2:32 pm PST, Feb 7, Melissa Warr, California

# 49:

2:32 pm PST, Feb 7, SCOTT MONTEZ, California

# 48:

2:32 pm PST, Feb 7, Name not displayed, Alaska
Without a planet, high tech is mute. Everything affects everything else and greed is winning. Take a stand and restore sanity.

# 47:

2:31 pm PST, Feb 7, Andrew Driscoll, Illinois
We must take immediate action to help reduce the effects of global warming. Please let me know your position on this very serious issue and imminent threat to humanity.

# 46:

2:31 pm PST, Feb 7, Asha Abdool, New York

# 45:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Pamela Palmateer, Indiana

# 44:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Inda Luciano, California
Don't let us down!

# 43:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Melissa Kesler, Oklahoma

# 42:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Jeff Hopkins, Illinois

# 41:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Brittany Maling, Massachusetts

# 40:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Ralph J. Milone, Florida
Stand up the big corporations and stop global warming!

# 39:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Shelby Fox, California

# 38:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Kathryn Hernandez, Nevada

# 37:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Robyn Erler, California

# 36:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Anne A. Rice, New York

# 35:

2:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Gina Munoz, California

# 34:

2:29 pm PST, Feb 7, Besart Gashi, Albania
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# 33:

2:29 pm PST, Feb 7, Melissa Davis, California
Don't let us down!!!

# 32:

2:29 pm PST, Feb 7, Linda Stonebraker, Kansas
WE NEED TO MAKE GLOBAL WARMING A PRIORITY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PEOPLE OF EARTH!! WE ARE NOT OR DO WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO LEAVE THIS WORLD YET!

# 31:

2:28 pm PST, Feb 7, Shelli Hundley-Barber, Alabama

# 30:

2:28 pm PST, Feb 7, David Tuckman, California

# 29:

2:28 pm PST, Feb 7, Bob Zannelli, Florida

# 28:

2:28 pm PST, Feb 7, Heather D. Curth, New York

# 27:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Kimberlee Watkins, California

# 26:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Kim Skubic, Illinois

# 25:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Brian Coleman, Illinois
Because it is affecting our weather patterns and causing destructions.

# 24:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, John Colgrove, California
Remember WHO you are supposed to represent and not WHAT you represent. If no action is taken today to reduce and reverse global warming, what will our children and their children have to live in? This will will be YOUR legacy. Don't blow it like the last guy in office did!!!

# 23:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Chris Sosa, New Jersey

# 22:

2:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Tamara Sedakow, Illinois
Let's save the planet.

# 21:

2:26 pm PST, Feb 7, Lourdes Sanchez, California

# 20:

2:25 pm PST, Feb 7, John Haines, California
It saddens me to think that I actually have to remind any thinking human being that survival of the species takes top priority. Well it is.

# 19:

2:25 pm PST, Feb 7, Jenna Robbins, California

# 18:

2:24 pm PST, Feb 7, Cerissa McFarlane, Oregon

# 17:

2:23 pm PST, Feb 7, Madeline Gulley, Illinois

# 16:

2:23 pm PST, Feb 7, Ruth Conley, Texas

# 15:

2:23 pm PST, Feb 7, Robert D. Miller, Tennessee

# 14:

2:01 pm PST, Feb 7, Michael Barth, Illinois

# 13:

1:51 pm PST, Feb 7, Todd Noble, Canada

# 12:

1:27 pm PST, Feb 7, Tina Florell, Sweden

# 11:

1:24 pm PST, Feb 7, Franziska Eber, Germany

# 10:

12:53 pm PST, Feb 7, Marlita Fullerton, Virginia

# 9:

12:42 pm PST, Feb 7, Jeremy Sobczak, Michigan

# 8:

12:32 pm PST, Feb 7, Brian Levin, Washington

# 7:

12:21 pm PST, Feb 7, Anne Daletski, Washington

# 6:

12:03 pm PST, Feb 7, Terri Hyatt, Canada
Canada's eco-stupid prime minister, Stephen Harper, has done an about-face regarding commitment to the environment (due, I'm sure, to global warming being identified as the #1 concern on voters' minds in opinion polls throughout the country) just months before our own elections. This should be a wake-up call to all the presidential candidates that voter's priorities have changed. The current see-saw of extreme weather is the canary in the proverbial mineshaft. Both Canada and the United States must work together on this issue.

# 5:

12:02 pm PST, Feb 7, Siobhan Casey, Ireland
Please read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report and take serious action NOW. NO EMPTY PROMISES. Thank you!

# 4:

11:43 am PST, Feb 7, Patricia Legris, Canada

# 3:

11:40 am PST, Feb 7, Marcin Sztwiertnia, Poland

# 2:

11:26 am PST, Feb 7, Vidya Sims, California

# 1:

11:19 am PST, Feb 7, Rebecca Young, California
Global warming is one of the most critical issues of our time, and it stands to be one of the biggest crises our children face if we fail to act now. The next president of the United States must commit to being a global leader on this issue.

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