Push to Pass McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Bill: up next week - IT’S ALL BUNK

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[Exton1]

Final Push to Pass McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Bill: Historic global warming vote could come up next week - IT’S ALL BUNK.

We need to fight back. This bill is based on junk science and will cripple the US Economy. Now is the time to contact your Senators and say no to this farce. For example to prove global warming in the ARTIC they interviewed Alaskan Natives on hunting and the ice. This means that because some hunter fell through the ice and did not get a Caribou one year, the sky is falling.

June 3, 2004

Dear x,

I've just learned that Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) are looking for time on the Senate schedule as soon as next week to bring their historic Climate Stewardship Act up for an all-important second vote. That means we could have less than one week from today for our final push to pass the bill.

The new timing has given us a chance to extend our grassroots organizing, advertising and petition gathering efforts. As you may recall, we had originally thought a vote would come as early as May.

With this urgent vote push, we now have less than a week to raise the additional $250,000 we need to keep the pressure on. Click here to make a final contribution in support of Environmental Defense Action Fund's 51 Club to help us get to a global warming majority of 51 Senate votes –

http://actionnetwork.org/ct/E7zC_u11VQOA/

Even at this late stage, with your contribution, we can step up our ad buys in our target states. Every dollar counts and could make the difference. With your contribution, here are just a few of the ad buys we could expand in the stretch run to the vote:

* $425 = 10 television ads in Memphis, Tennessee, during ABC's Good Morning America * $1,670 = 100,000 banner ad impressions on fieldandstream.com * $4,605 = 1 print ad in the Sunday New Orleans Times Picayune * $12,129 = 1 print ad in the Sunday Cleveland Plain Dealer * $25,279 = 70 cable television ads in each of the media markets in the target states

We've also picked up that some energy industry lobbyists are stepping up their opposition to the bill, realizing that Senators McCain and Lieberman are dead serious about forcing another vote in this session of Congress. This is on top of the ongoing campaign by the big polluters to discredit some of the world's leading scientists and muddle the science of global warming. That's why it's so urgent that we be able to respond with effective organizing and advertising in these final countdown days.

What our opponents don't seem to realize - or choose to ignore - is that every day the problems of global warming are getting worse. The sky is falling

We are already seeing global temperature rises and more extreme weather patterns. Arctic sea ice has shrunk by 250 million acres -- an area the size of California, Maryland and Texas combined. Severe drought affecting parts of North America, Southern Europe and Southern and Central Asia in recent years has been linked to global warming. And in the U.S. alone, crop losses brought on by global warming are expected to double by 2030 to around $3 billion. [For more details on the global warming impacts, read our climate change white paper -- "The Heat Is On" Enviro Pun HA HA
http://actionnetwork.org/ct/m1zC_u11VQOq/]

The clock is ticking and the temperature is rising. Passing the bipartisan and practical McCain-Lieberman is a critical first step toward changing the politics of indifference that permeates Washington, D.C.

I believe we can astound the pundits and deliver a total of 51 votes for the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act in the Senate test ahead. Against all odds, and against the intense lobbying of our opponents, we were able to defy the pundits' predictions and come within striking distance of a majority last October.

But since the vote could come up any day now, every minute counts. We are nearing the home stretch and must now redouble our efforts. So even if you've made a generous gift recently, please consider making an additional contribution today.

Click here to link to our secure online giving page: http://actionnetwork.org/ct/E7zC_u11VQOA/

Quite frankly, the stakes are so high for the environment that we simply must succeed.

I hope you will help make history.

[kdot]

You can find more information here.

McCain, again?

[sibbel]

Yeah you are absolutely right...
there is as much prove that the climate is changing as there is of the evolution theory.

[OldFriend]

Whenver I see the name McCain I just know it's going to be something bad for America.

[COEXERJ145]

Some how I doubt this has much chance of passing the House.

[saveliberty]

Doggone this global warming! Here I am in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts and it's so cold that I have to use the furnace at night.

[Reagan Man]

This means that because some hunter fell through the ice and did not get a Caribou one year, the sky is falling.

LOL Let'em eat frozen fish. Raw fish.

[Dog Gone]

I don't know why these people don't realize that the planet goes through cycles of warming and cooling. It's been that way since the atmosphere was formed.

And what makes them think that they can lock it in now?

[Wait4Truth]

I wish McCain would just retire. This is nothing more than another move on his part to tarnish the President who is not going to sign some piece of crap that is going to hurt the economy. McCain is a traitor to his party. I think he's working with Kerry behind the scenes. He's a fraud.

[F16Fighter]

"McCain, again?"

Yep, McCuckoo again...

Next week he'll be sponsoring an Enema Bill.

[cricket]

Will these people ever stop this poltically self-serving crappola.

STOPPPP! This makes as much rational sense as burning witches at the stake to save a community.

[John Lenin]

I keep warning people about Lieberman, don't trust this fool !

[TBarnett34]

Is it just me, or does every "bipartisan" bill in the Senate seem to have RINO McCain's name attached to it?

[samadams2000]

McCain is the Rights Jessie Jackson. Stop trying to "help" the American people and please retire you crazy psycho.

[John Lenin]

Anyone who stands by and watches military votes be thrown out should not hold power in this country, ever!

[sibbel]

Haven't had a decent winter in years. No snow in Germany.
And last summer the Rhine river could be crossed wading.
If the summers had been that hot during WW2 nobody would have cared about the bridges anymore. No Arnhem and no Remagen to be remembered.

[freebilly]

IMHO, global warming is real, and all those who would like to halt global warming should do two things.

First, immediately destroy your global warming machine (i.e., the 1979 Honda Civic with all the "Save the Planet" bumper stickers on the back).

Next, opt for euthanasia....

[freebilly]

Haven't had a decent winter in years. No snow in Germany.

Go to Massachusetts....