Ask Obama to Support 350 PPM Goal

Atmospheric carbon dioxide currently stands at about 387 parts per million. Scientists, including the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Jim Hansen, formerly of NASA, have called on world leaders to reduce that level to 350 parts per million. Doing so will require the United States to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent or more below 1990 levels by 2020.

Studies have concluded that 35 percent of species could be committed to extinction by 2050 if current emissions trajectories continue. But many of these extinctions can be prevented if greenhouse gas emissions are cut.

In celebration of the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, we need you to help us take action to save these species and the thousands of others at risk from runaway climate change. With President Barack Obama preparing for international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, the time to act is now.

Please sign our petition urging President Obama to follow the science and support a 350 ppm goal for any legislation or negotiated international agreement.

Dear President Obama:

The scientific consensus is clear: We must reduce the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million (ppm) or below to avoid global catastrophe. While this is no doubt an ambitious goal, if we fail, life on Earth -- including the polar bear, manatee, Atlantic salmon, caribou, and our own human race -- faces a perilous future.

To date, proposed bills in the U.S. Congress have fallen far short of the 350 ppm goal. Please make sure that any legislation or negotiated agreement in Copenhagen to address the climate crisis sets a target to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide to no more than 350 ppm. Any emission target that doesn't get the United States to 350 ppm or less won't be enough to save life on Earth as we know it.

Please show bold leadership in protecting all of our futures and ensure that 350 ppm is part of the climate legislation and agreements.

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1-25 of 2257 signatures

Number	Date	Name	Location
2257	Fri Nov 20 16:06:08 EST 2009	Ian Field	San Diego, CA , US
2256	Fri Nov 20 14:16:23 EST 2009	Flora Pino García	Alameda del Valle, Madrid, ot , ES
2255	Fri Nov 20 12:33:23 EST 2009	Linda Miller	Grand Junction, MI , US
2254	Fri Nov 20 11:10:50 EST 2009	robert maize	lubbock, TX , US
2253	Fri Nov 20 07:22:24 EST 2009	anthony georgopoulos	new york, NY , US
2252	Thu Nov 19 21:52:27 EST 2009	april sennhauser	garland, TX , US
2251	Thu Nov 19 21:20:11 EST 2009	Debbie Brozak	Oak Lawn, IL , US
2250	Thu Nov 19 21:03:06 EST 2009	Alan Korsen	San Clemente, CA , US
2249	Thu Nov 19 19:02:50 EST 2009
2248	Thu Nov 19 17:23:40 EST 2009	Deborah Barros	São Paulo, ot , BR
2247	Thu Nov 19 17:02:14 EST 2009	Angela Schmidt	Brooklyn, NY , US
2246	Thu Nov 19 16:56:45 EST 2009	Anneke DeLuycker	Indianapolis, IN , US
2245	Thu Nov 19 16:03:23 EST 2009	john eisel	damascus, OR , US
2244	Thu Nov 19 15:43:57 EST 2009	Alison Oscar	Rowayton, CT , US
2243	Thu Nov 19 15:07:02 EST 2009	Charles Bryant	Oxford, MS , US
2242	Thu Nov 19 12:38:23 EST 2009	natali moran	brooklyn, NY , US
2241	Thu Nov 19 10:11:36 EST 2009	Julie Dupuis	Noelville, ON , CA
2240	Thu Nov 19 10:00:07 EST 2009	Jose Yamut	Cebu, ot , PH
2239	Wed Nov 18 22:12:44 EST 2009	Kimberly Rowlett	Cleveland, TN , US
2238	Wed Nov 18 17:15:37 EST 2009	Faiqa Nadeem	NY, NY , US
2237	Wed Nov 18 17:13:08 EST 2009	Faiqa Nadeem	NY, NY , US
2236	Wed Nov 18 16:55:39 EST 2009	Marium Bibi	Brooklyn NY, NY , US
2235	Wed Nov 18 15:57:29 EST 2009	ROXANA MASTRONARDI	SAN MARTIN, ot , AR
2234	Wed Nov 18 15:17:34 EST 2009	MARIA PHIPPS	LAS VEGAS, NV , UM
2233	Wed Nov 18 14:37:34 EST 2009	ebru mutevellioglu	boston, MA , US

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