Fw: CLIMATE ALERT: Severe Australian Drought Caused by Climate Change, Leave Your Coal in the Ground!

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CLIMATE ALERT: Severe Australian Drought Caused by Climate Change, Leave

Your Coal in the Ground!

 

 

ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Severe Australian Drought Caused by Climate Change, Leave Your

Coal in the Ground!

 

By Climate Ark, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.Climateark.org/

October 24, 2006

 

TAKE ACTION

Dramatic Efforts Required to Ensure Australia's Well-Being and

Planetary Survival

http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_climate

 

Australia is currently experiencing extreme drought as a result

of abrupt climate change, and the nation is undergoing

unprecedented discussion of global heating reminiscent of

America's own post-Katrina reckoning. Australia's per capita

greenhouse gas emissions are among the highest in the world, and

Australia's economy is based heavily upon the deadly coal fossil

fuel industry which exerts undue political influence.

Temperatures in Australia are now expected to rise by as much as

8°C (15°F) in the next century with cataclysmic results. Over

the coming decades these soaring temperatures will result in

water supplies for millions failing, agriculture becoming

unviable over huge areas, rising sea levels destroying

substantial coastal areas, powerful extreme weather events

including super cyclones and bushfires, and countless

environmental refugees overwhelming Australia's ability to cope.

To address their current climate caused drought emergency,

Australia simply must ratify the Kyoto Protocol immediately and

engage seriously in negotiations to further establish global

mandatory emissions cuts for all nations that are equitable and

adequate to achieve what climate science indicates is necessary

to conserve the global climatic system. The best estimate is

that emissions must be cut as soon as possible by 60-75%, a

level which requires Australia forgoing the burning of their

coal resources. Australia must stop its obstruction of

international climate policies. Tell them by taking action now:

http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=australia_climate