Dear Senator,

I urge you to co-sponsor, and support, the Climate Stewardship Act of 2005 recently introduced by Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman. The consequences of global climate change go beyond the harm it is causing Americans. Climate change disrupts ecosystems and habitat, threatening the most endangered animals worldwide.

Increases in global temperatures will rapidly shift ecosystems and many animals will be unable to adapt fast enough to survive. In fact, the extinction risk from global warming, if not curtailed, could result in the loss of more than one million species by 2050. Some ecosystems, including alpine meadows in the Rocky Mountains, as well as tropical montane and mangrove forests, are likely to disappear because new warmer local climates or coastal sea level rise will not support them.

We can already observe how climate change is disrupting animal life. Over the past 25 years scientists have observed at 33 percent decline in Penguin populations because of declining winter sea-ice habitat. Polar Bears are starving due to shrinking winter habitat. A recent study found more than 279 species of plants and animals have already begun to respond to global warming. As global warming increases we should only expect that number to grow.

The correlation is clear – climate change is shifting ecosystems and species are dying-off. Our natural heritage, and animals like Gorillas and Pandas, are being squandered by the Senate's inaction.

I urge you to cosponsor and support in every way the Climate Stewardship Act. It is bipartisan, business friendly, and tackles climate change by putting limits on the gasses that create the problem. Most importantly it protects Americans and the world.


Sincerely,

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