New Vid: Obama on Mt. Rushmore? A Call for Global Warming Leadership!
You might have heard about the challenge Greenpeace issued to President Obama on Wednesday with our a banner hang on Mount Rushmore: “America honors leaders, not politicians. Stop global warming.”
We have an amazing video that was shot in the field at the action, and I wanted to share it with you.
<a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... ACTION NOW: Call On Obama for Real Climate Leadership!</a>
President Obama is currently meeting with other world leaders at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy. Yesterday they announced a new commitment to keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius – a target already endorsed by 109 nations. While this is certainly a worthy goal, President Obama and the other G8 leaders did not commit to short-term greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to achieving this long-term target. Having a goal is not good enough — we need a roadmap outlining how we will reach our destination. Given that President Obama and Congress have so far proposed short-term emissions goals that will not keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, the President needs to make a strong and clear commitment to meaningful short-term emissions reductions.
Please <a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... our petition now</a> calling on President Obama to provide the leadership that will establish both the short-term and the long-term goals science tells us are necessary to stop global warming.
Here in the United States and internationally, leadership is still desperately needed to get the systems in place for averting runaway climate change. We can’t continue to put off to tomorrow what science tells us we need to do today.
In order to adequately tackle global warming, we need President Obama to lead. <a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... action now and call on him to provide that leadership</a>.
For the Planet,
<img src="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/banners/jessmill-headshot">
Jess Miller
Greenpeace Activist
We have an amazing video that was shot in the field at the action, and I wanted to share it with you.
<a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... ACTION NOW: Call On Obama for Real Climate Leadership!</a>
President Obama is currently meeting with other world leaders at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy. Yesterday they announced a new commitment to keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius – a target already endorsed by 109 nations. While this is certainly a worthy goal, President Obama and the other G8 leaders did not commit to short-term greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to achieving this long-term target. Having a goal is not good enough — we need a roadmap outlining how we will reach our destination. Given that President Obama and Congress have so far proposed short-term emissions goals that will not keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, the President needs to make a strong and clear commitment to meaningful short-term emissions reductions.
Please <a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... our petition now</a> calling on President Obama to provide the leadership that will establish both the short-term and the long-term goals science tells us are necessary to stop global warming.
Here in the United States and internationally, leadership is still desperately needed to get the systems in place for averting runaway climate change. We can’t continue to put off to tomorrow what science tells us we need to do today.
In order to adequately tackle global warming, we need President Obama to lead. <a href="http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=47... action now and call on him to provide that leadership</a>.
For the Planet,
<img src="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/banners/jessmill-headshot">
Jess Miller
Greenpeace Activist
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