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The Most Important Bill of Our Time

Right now we face the greatest threat in human history -- catastrophic global climate change. The deeply flawed global warming bill passed by the House in June 2009 gave us at best only a 50/50 chance of avoiding cataclysmic runaway global warming. And it gutted the Clean Air Act, one of our most powerful tools for reducing greenhouse gases.

The good news is that the Senate bill retained the Clean Air Act’s authority to curb green house gas pollution. The bad news is that the Clean Air Act is still in jeopardy. Asked why the Senate bill didn't gut the Act, Senator Kerry responded: “Because I think that we need to have some negotiating room as we proceed forward here.” We could lose our win, unless we continue to stand strong for the Act.

And the worse news is that the Senate bill won’t cut carbon dioxide emissions deep or fast enough to prevent runaway global warming. It requires only a 20-percent reduction in carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2020, while climate science shows that we need to slash emissions by 40 percent of 1990 levels by 2020 to have any chance of ratcheting back atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.

Our time to act is now -- the Center for Biological Diversity needs your help to pass a strong global warming bill.

Sing our petition urging the Senate and President Barack Obama to pass a strong global warming bill. Share it with your friends and family and post it on your Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter pages by clicking the "share" button under the coal-fired power plant photo.

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Dear President Obama and U.S. Senators:

The world's inhabitants -- people, animals, and plants -- are relying on your bold leadership to take on the greatest threat of our time: catastrophic global warming. We need a strong bill to tackle the climate crisis now, and it’s essential we get it right the first time. This may be our only chance. Any climate bill must:

 - Set an overall cap on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of no more than 350 parts per million.

- Maintain the Clean Air Act’s ability to regulate critical polluters -- the Act has reduced air pollution for 40 years and is one of our most powerful tools in fighting global warming.

- Eliminate or greatly reduce offsets and other loopholes.

We're depending on you to pass a bill that truly takes on the biggest crisis in human history. If this historic bill passes, it’s unlikely to be substantially amended in the next decade, so we can’t afford an imperfect “first step” now. Passing a weak and flawed bill may be worse than doing nothing at all. I urge you to improve and strengthen the climate bill before bringing it to a vote.

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Number	Date	Name	Location
46539	November 20, 2009	Jeff Bay	Niskayuna, NY, US
46538	November 20, 2009	Ian Field	San Diego, CA, US
46537	November 20, 2009	Alison Howard-Levy	New York, NY, US
46536	November 20, 2009	Lawrence Turk	Hendersonville, NC, US
46535	November 19, 2009	R.E. Overstreet	Indianapolis, IN, US
46534	November 19, 2009	Kassie Siegel	Joshua Tree, CA, US
46533	November 18, 2009	Christine Cape	Sanders, AZ, US
46532	November 18, 2009	Christine Cape	Sanders, AZ, US
46531	November 18, 2009	Alexandra MAUVE	Nimes, FR
46530	November 17, 2009	Andrea Roth	Baltimore, MD, US
46529	November 16, 2009	Armen Carapetian	San Francisco, CA, US
46528	November 16, 2009	Armen Carapetian	San Francisco, CA, US
46527	November 16, 2009	Andrea Roth	Baltimore, MD, US
46526	November 16, 2009	John Mark Robertson	Belleville, ON, CA
46525	November 15, 2009	Persia Woolley	Sebastopol, CA, US
46524	November 15, 2009	R.E. Overstreet	Indianapolis, IN, US
46523	November 13, 2009	James Van Kirk	NEW YORK, NY, US
46522	November 13, 2009	Russell Landau	Lancaster , PA, US
46521	November 13, 2009	Lisa Rae	Wallington, GB
46520	November 12, 2009	Anonymous	Monte Sereno, CA, US
46519	November 12, 2009	Kimyn Braithwaite	San Francisco, CA, US
46518	November 12, 2009	Eve Bailey	Santa Monica, CA, US
46517	November 12, 2009	Warren Hageman	Citrus Heights, CA, US
46516	November 11, 2009	Karen Killian Baker	St. Simons Island, GA, US
46515	November 11, 2009	Lynn C. Lang	Saint Cloud, MN, US

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