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.
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