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Science Must Guide U.S. Policies on Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming
Target: President-Elect Barack ObamaSponsored by: Union of Concerned Scientists
For nearly eight years, we have seen the Bush administration ignore science in pursuit of politically motivated policies.
Despite the growing call from respected U.S. scientists and leaders to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons, President Bush chose to pursue a new generation of nuclear bombs. And ignoring federal scientists' and analysts' advice to regulate and reduce global warming pollution, the Bush administration chose to side with Big Oil and corporate spin over scientific realities of global warming.
In essence, the current administration has ignored the two most pressing global security issues of our time: the growing threat of nuclear weapons and global warming.
This must change in January 2009. The solutions to the catastrophic dangers of nuclear weapons and unchecked climate change are within our grasp. But we must have a president who will use the best available science to guide key policy decisions.
Please sign our petition today, and urge President-Elect Barack Obama to pledge that crucial national, environmental, and energy security policies will be guided by the findings of the scientific community, not corporate or political interest groups.
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3:12 pm PST, Dec 3,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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2:55 pm PST, Dec 3,
Lisa Lewis, North Carolina
# 4,115:
4:20 am PST, Dec 3,
Eden Garden, South Africa
We must have an international animal rights and eco court in the Hague. We must jail those criminals plundering and raping the planet from 2000 or even before. We must hold those accountable for their criminal decisions and behaviour that harm the planet and it's inhabitants and they must go to prison.
We must have an international animal rights and eco court in the Hague. We must jail those criminals plundering and raping the planet from 2000 or even before. We must hold those accountable for their criminal decisions and behaviour that harm the planet and it's inhabitants and they must go to prison.
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8:37 pm PST, Dec 2,
Cordette Boykin, Cayman Islands
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4:43 pm PST, Dec 2,
Selina Schecroun, Virginia
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4:04 pm PST, Dec 2,
Jason Asher, Indiana
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4:02 am PST, Dec 2,
John Walsh, Pennsylvania
We have to stop using oil as a fuel and get into alternative energy sources to power us if we hope to stem the tide of global warming. Please help and give the scientlfic community a chance to turn this global warming menace around.
We have to stop using oil as a fuel and get into alternative energy sources to power us if we hope to stem the tide of global warming. Please help and give the scientlfic community a chance to turn this global warming menace around.
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10:36 pm PST, Dec 1,
Ann Kautzmann, Indiana
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8:58 pm PST, Dec 1,
Jason Lehman, Pennsylvania
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5:55 pm PST, Dec 1,
Meave O'connor, California
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4:00 pm PST, Dec 1,
Beth Mcelwee, Ohio
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3:18 pm PST, Dec 1,
Qwerty Zxcvb, Virginia
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3:06 pm PST, Dec 1,
Name not displayed, Maryland
I believe Obama should listen to the over 31,000 scientists at www.oism.org/pproject who agree that man is not causing climate change. Obama should also pay attention to the fact that we are actually seeing cooling lately, and also look back at the big "global cooling" scare in the 1970s.
I believe Obama should listen to the over 31,000 scientists at www.oism.org/pproject who agree that man is not causing climate change. Obama should also pay attention to the fact that we are actually seeing cooling lately, and also look back at the big "global cooling" scare in the 1970s.
# 4,104:
2:07 pm PST, Dec 1,
Alba Tomasula, Indiana
Sound science is the way in which the modern world should be guided, not hot tempers.
Sound science is the way in which the modern world should be guided, not hot tempers.
# 4,103:
12:03 pm PST, Dec 1,
Diana Carter, Indiana
We must stop polluting our environment. Corporate greed must be stopped in allowing them to destroy the health of people, animals, and our planet just to make more money.
We must stop polluting our environment. Corporate greed must be stopped in allowing them to destroy the health of people, animals, and our planet just to make more money.
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9:37 am PST, Dec 1,
Rebecca Tyre, Tennessee
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8:57 am PST, Dec 1,
David Lauer, Pennsylvania
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Robin Albright, Pennsylvania
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5:48 am PST, Dec 1,
Laurie Mielo, Pennsylvania
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5:27 am PST, Dec 1,
Eric Baker, Virginia
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5:18 am PST, Dec 1,
Tina Schneider, Maryland
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5:09 am PST, Dec 1,
Colleen Sheidy, Pennsylvania
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10:54 pm PST, Nov 30,
James Carrell, Indiana
hOW MUCH MORE will the Earth suffer for Man's mistakes? We have so much to offer this world, but more and more, humans are too busy destroying everything around them. It is far past time for the U.S. to stand up for what is right. To be the world leader it once was. To actually listen to its citizens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hOW MUCH MORE will the Earth suffer for Man's mistakes? We have so much to offer this world, but more and more, humans are too busy destroying everything around them. It is far past time for the U.S. to stand up for what is right. To be the world leader it once was. To actually listen to its citizens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8:57 pm PST, Nov 30,
Debra Hartsfield, Tennessee
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7:37 pm PST, Nov 30,
Michael Husek, Ohio
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5:41 pm PST, Nov 30,
Betsy Boyd, Tennessee
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4:09 pm PST, Nov 30,
Malinda Misko, Pennsylvania
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3:35 pm PST, Nov 30,
Karen Burchill, Pennsylvania
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3:02 pm PST, Nov 30,
Elizabeth Roe, Indiana
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2:56 pm PST, Nov 30,
John Gallagher, California
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2:41 pm PST, Nov 30,
Claudia Dikinis, California
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12:31 pm PST, Nov 30,
Ernest Grolimund, Maine
President Elect Obama: I voted for you as did everyone in my family. My daughter was selected to give a speeech for you in her high school before thousands and I advocated on you behalf on environmental websites such as www.burningissues.org where I am a frequent requested author. It is the #1 rated educational website on air pollution in the world according to the BBC. About two years ago, the environmental problem of the decade was dumped in my backyard and it ties into global warming and energy policies that I have helped champion for decades. I am talking about life and health threatening air pollution from excessive wood smoke that caused a neighbor to have a heart attack and caused my daughter to have asthma worsening and an asthma attack. Old woodburning equipment is typically 10% efficient and emits tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide when used to heat a home. It may emit 8 times as much carbon dioxide as oil burning equipment or nat. gas and NASA is writing that the particulates are another probable source of global warming. The old woodburning equipment therefor must be banned at a minimum and the push for more woodburning for schools using old chip boilers must be stopped as well. Electrostaitic precipitators for small to medium sources such as this must be developed at the minimum. Europe has them so they could be imported but they are not because of import problems. But wood burning still emits carbon and the pm reduction does not reduce air toxics that are a health and cancer problem like coal. Solid fuels are historically polluting according to engineering texts and health authorities such as the AMA and A. Lung Assn. They could be replaced by clean hydropower and windpower and tidal power and ocean thrermal difference heat pump power plants and active and passive solar energy systems and photovolataic systems. Electric geothermal heat pumps are clean and as cheap as gas and should be championed along with more insulation and superinsulation. Please have the environmental protection and energy depatments start acting on this immediately. I support the union of concerned scientists now as always and have worked for windpower and solar power and clean air for decades. I have a degree in Civil Engineering, a genius IQ according to the Coast Gaurd and my first engineering work is in the Smithsonian. I was an important person in state hearings that resulted in a historic, if flawed, outdoor wood boiler bill and the first ammendment to it and have been working with the ALA, EDF, CAR, and the Governors Office in Maine on changing outdated federal law regarding dangerous NSPS standards. I would appreciate a call or letter or e-mail from a government official or aide regarding this. I worked closely with an aide from the Carter administration to increase the building of more small scale hydropower in New England and volunteer my time, for free, to work with others on this life and death and planet threatening problem. Sincerely, Ernest Grolimund
President Elect Obama: I voted for you as did everyone in my family. My daughter was selected to give a speeech for you in her high school before thousands and I advocated on you behalf on environmental websites such as www.burningissues.org where I am a frequent requested author. It is the #1 rated educational website on air pollution in the world according to the BBC. About two years ago, the environmental problem of the decade was dumped in my backyard and it ties into global warming and energy policies that I have helped champion for decades. I am talking about life and health threatening air pollution from excessive wood smoke that caused a neighbor to have a heart attack and caused my daughter to have asthma worsening and an asthma attack. Old woodburning equipment is typically 10% efficient and emits tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide when used to heat a home. It may emit 8 times as much carbon dioxide as oil burning equipment or nat. gas and NASA is writing that the particulates are another probable source of global warming. The old woodburning equipment therefor must be banned at a minimum and the push for more woodburning for schools using old chip boilers must be stopped as well. Electrostaitic precipitators for small to medium sources such as this must be developed at the minimum. Europe has them so they could be imported but they are not because of import problems. But wood burning still emits carbon and the pm reduction does not reduce air toxics that are a health and cancer problem like coal. Solid fuels are historically polluting according to engineering texts and health authorities such as the AMA and A. Lung Assn. They could be replaced by clean hydropower and windpower and tidal power and ocean thrermal difference heat pump power plants and active and passive solar energy systems and photovolataic systems. Electric geothermal heat pumps are clean and as cheap as gas and should be championed along with more insulation and superinsulation. Please have the environmental protection and energy depatments start acting on this immediately. I support the union of concerned scientists now as always and have worked for windpower and solar power and clean air for decades. I have a degree in Civil Engineering, a genius IQ according to the Coast Gaurd and my first engineering work is in the Smithsonian. I was an important person in state hearings that resulted in a historic, if flawed, outdoor wood boiler bill and the first ammendment to it and have been working with the ALA, EDF, CAR, and the Governors Office in Maine on changing outdated federal law regarding dangerous NSPS standards. I would appreciate a call or letter or e-mail from a government official or aide regarding this. I worked closely with an aide from the Carter administration to increase the building of more small scale hydropower in New England and volunteer my time, for free, to work with others on this life and death and planet threatening problem. Sincerely, Ernest Grolimund
# 4,085:
12:31 pm PST, Nov 30,
KAREN Bonner, Pennsylvania
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11:59 am PST, Nov 30,
NE Granlund, Idaho
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11:58 am PST, Nov 30,
Jackie Wright-Martin, Virginia
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10:56 am PST, Nov 30,
Brian Reynolds, New Jersey
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10:40 am PST, Nov 30,
Juleen Adams, Pennsylvania
Sound science must guide U.S. policy because poeple need to know why there are changes in the climate. They need to know why icebergs are melting and why snow is coming less and less. They need to be aware of the things going on and they'll listen if the President does something about it
Sound science must guide U.S. policy because poeple need to know why there are changes in the climate. They need to know why icebergs are melting and why snow is coming less and less. They need to be aware of the things going on and they'll listen if the President does something about it
# 4,080:
10:29 am PST, Nov 30,
Priscilla Myco, Pennsylvania
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9:22 am PST, Nov 30,
Mandi Hamilton, Tennessee
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8:52 am PST, Nov 30,
David Wollam, Pennsylvania
For anyone who scans messaes such as these look at the following Ian McEwan article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/19/global-climate-change-policy-obama
For anyone who scans messaes such as these look at the following Ian McEwan article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/19/global-climate-change-policy-obama
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8:29 am PST, Nov 30,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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8:00 am PST, Nov 30,
Name not displayed, Michigan
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7:31 am PST, Nov 30,
Pam Raney, Pennsylvania
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6:31 am PST, Nov 30,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
This is not a monetary problem that can be fixed by corporate bigwigs who make the world a more polluted place with their tainted views of reality. They only see $ signs and their names in headlines.
This is not a monetary problem that can be fixed by corporate bigwigs who make the world a more polluted place with their tainted views of reality. They only see $ signs and their names in headlines.
# 4,073:
6:28 am PST, Nov 30,
Barbara Slinker, Virginia
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6:20 am PST, Nov 30,
Aaron Campbell, Pennsylvania
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6:09 am PST, Nov 30,
Lea Cox, Virginia
As our next president, you will face an enormous challenge -- and opportunity -- on the two most pressing global security challenges of our time -- the grave and growing threat of nuclear weapons, and the catastrophic dangers of unchecked global warming pollution. The past eight years have been wasted at the federal level by an administration that systematically ignored, muzzled, or misrepresented the scientific analysis on these crucial issues. Science-based analysis and the consensus of the scientific community must be the core foundation for policy-making, as it is this impartial survey that can help an administration set clear priorities in a sea of conflicting political messages.
As our next president, you will face an enormous challenge -- and opportunity -- on the two most pressing global security challenges of our time -- the grave and growing threat of nuclear weapons, and the catastrophic dangers of unchecked global warming pollution. The past eight years have been wasted at the federal level by an administration that systematically ignored, muzzled, or misrepresented the scientific analysis on these crucial issues. Science-based analysis and the consensus of the scientific community must be the core foundation for policy-making, as it is this impartial survey that can help an administration set clear priorities in a sea of conflicting political messages.
# 4,070:
5:27 am PST, Nov 30,
Philip Colprit, New Hampshire
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4:58 am PST, Nov 30,
Michael Ostrosky, Pennsylvania
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4:49 am PST, Nov 30,
Mary DeLong, Pennsylvania
Please listen with an open mind. We have all been filled with so many lies and opinions that it is hard to weed through to the truth.
Please listen with an open mind. We have all been filled with so many lies and opinions that it is hard to weed through to the truth.
# 4,067:
2:09 am PST, Nov 30,
Name not displayed, Virginia
You made history by being our first Black President , so now make history again, and take the steps needed to mandate a positive action to use the scientific knowledge, analysis, and evidence to reduce gloabl warming.
You made history by being our first Black President , so now make history again, and take the steps needed to mandate a positive action to use the scientific knowledge, analysis, and evidence to reduce gloabl warming.
# 4,066:
9:55 pm PST, Nov 29,
Sharon Echternach, Pennsylvania
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7:47 pm PST, Nov 29,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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7:18 pm PST, Nov 29,
Rebecca Cox, Tennessee
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# 4,063:
7:04 pm PST, Nov 29,
Blanche Orr, Indiana
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7:02 pm PST, Nov 29,
Nathalia Santiago, Massachusetts
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6:49 pm PST, Nov 29,
Rc Pickwick, New Hampshire
I am aware of some government employees that were told by the current adminstration to make science fit the adminstrations policies. that is not how science works. I hope we will not proceed down such a blind and limited egocentric approach. We need to respect all the animals of this planet, as well as space capsul Earth, in order for our species of animal (humans) to survive.
I am aware of some government employees that were told by the current adminstration to make science fit the adminstrations policies. that is not how science works. I hope we will not proceed down such a blind and limited egocentric approach. We need to respect all the animals of this planet, as well as space capsul Earth, in order for our species of animal (humans) to survive.
# 4,060:
6:11 pm PST, Nov 29,
Angeline Walczyk, Indiana
Sound Science needs to guide U. S. policy in saving our wild life, wild birds, plants and the very air we breath. We are human beings with a brain of thinking power and our Scientists are among the thinking power we need to help us respect our environment.
Sound Science needs to guide U. S. policy in saving our wild life, wild birds, plants and the very air we breath. We are human beings with a brain of thinking power and our Scientists are among the thinking power we need to help us respect our environment.
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5:13 pm PST, Nov 29,
Name not displayed, Virginia
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4:52 pm PST, Nov 29,
Holli Lafrenz, Idaho
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4:42 pm PST, Nov 29,
Richard Bruno, Pennsylvania
# 4,056:
3:55 pm PST, Nov 29,
Eleanor R. Clark, Pennsylvania
Please get us back on track--------
Please get us back on track--------
# 4,055:
2:55 pm PST, Nov 29,
Keith Strausbaugh, West Virginia
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2:19 pm PST, Nov 29,
Susan Hardin, Tennessee
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1:53 pm PST, Nov 29,
Name not displayed, Virginia
science and more science to help the global warming end
science and more science to help the global warming end
# 4,052:
1:20 pm PST, Nov 29,
Carole Badman, Pennsylvania
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1:13 pm PST, Nov 29,
Regina Carolan, Pennsylvania
