Houstonians for Global Warming Action
Global Warming is already changing weather patterns around the world, melting glaciers and creating stronger hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. In the near future scientists expect it to exacerbate drought in the United States and raise sea levels, submerging many U.S. coastal communities. Every year since 1992 has been listed among the 20 warmest years on record.
In its 2001 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated, "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities." Carbon dioxide from fossil fuel pollution and land clearing has been accumulating in the atmosphere, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, where it acts like a blanket keeping Earth warm and heating up the surface, ocean, and atmosphere. As a result, current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher than at any time during the last 650,000 years.
Dear Mayor White,
We, the undersigned residents of Houston, believe that it is imperative for local governments to fill the void left by our federal government's unconscionable repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol.
We urge you to immediately join the hundreds of cities and towns across the United States, cities of both liberal and conservative leadership, by signing “The US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.”
Under this agreement, local governments commit to cleaning up local causes of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for threatening our world by heating up our planet and raising sea levels. We do not want Houston to be missing from this important statement.
Sincerely,
