Support the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act

Dear Senators,

As a constituent who wants to see real action on global warming, I urge the Senate to support the Global Warming Survival Act in the upcoming House-Senate conference on energy legislation.

This Act is part of the New Direction for Energy Independence Act, H.R. 3221, forward-looking energy legislation that also offers a crucial lifeline to polar bears, monk seals and other wildlife threatened by global warming.

Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing America's wildlife and requires urgent response. Already, polar bears are drowning and starving to death in their search for food as the sea ice they need to survive melts away. Rising temperatures could cause sea levels to rise, submerging important habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals. Global warming threatens ducks on the Great Plains, bighorn sheep in the Southwest, sea turtles in Florida, lynx in the Northeast and many other species across America.

Unless we address the threat of global climate change through public policy on the use and management of our federal lands and natural resources, we may lose some of these species forever. That's why I urge the Senate to support this important legislation through this fall's conference on energy legislation.

The Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act section of this bill would take vital steps to help America's wildlife navigate the significant threats posed by global warming by helping to spur:

* A national strategy to help wildlife survive and adapt to global warming's impacts;

* A cooperative long-term effort among federal, state and private landowners to implement that strategy; and

* Solid scientific research to inform the strategy over time.

Our wildlife can't afford to wait to address global warming -- and neither can we.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]