Saturday, June 30, 2007

Save the Polar Bears!!!!!

HELP SAVE POLAR BEARS!!!!

While the Bush Administration refuses to clamp down on America'sbiggest global warming polluters . . .. . . there are alarming new reports of POLAR BEARS STARVING inthe Arctic and being driven to extremes of survival behaviorbecause of the rapidly changing climate.I'll share more about it below. But first, I need you to takeIMMEDIATE ACTION because new global warming bills are beingdebated in Congress -- and they could be a critical factor insaving the polar bear from extinction.In advance of key votes on a global warming bill, we must buildthe ranks of concerned Americans who are committed to savingpolar bears by making their voices heard on Capitol Hill.Go to the Tell-A-Friend page of our Polar Bear SOS website andsend out as many SOS messages as you can to your friends andfamily: http://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends

That way, when a tough global warming bill is nearing a vote, wecan alert millions of online activists to support it -- and winits passage into law.Right now, the need for such legislation is distressinglyapparent. The Arctic spring in Greenland is coming two weeksearlier than it did in 1996 -- a rate of climate change that faroutstrips warming trends seen elsewhere in the NorthernHemisphere.As the sea ice melts earlier and earlier each year, there havebeen more and more reports of starving polar bears being forcedto resort to heart-breaking acts of desperation.Only last summer, an adult bear -- his hip bones visible throughhis hide -- killed a polar bear cub for food in the first-evereyewitness account of polar bear infanticide.

The scientists who observed this never-before-seen behaviorlinked the killing of the cub -- and other recent reports ofpolar bear cannibalism in Alaska's Beaufort Sea -- to"nutritional stress related to a longer ice-free period."They also predicted that as the ice melt continues toaccelerate, tragic incidents like these will become morefrequent. This is the terrible and inexcusable toll that globalwarming is taking on the polar bear.And our very best hope to prevent an even bigger tragedy is tostart cutting our global warming pollution now.So while you have this message in front of you -- please rallyyour friends in support of imperiled polar bears by sending SOSmessages to as many people as you can athttp://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends

Thanks to you, we prevailed in court and forced the BushAdministration to propose giving the polar bear federalprotection. Then, we deluged the administration with hundreds ofthousands of Citizen Comments in support of that protection.Now, with your help, we'll be poised and ready to unleash thepower of one million online activists in support of globalwarming legislation that could be a lifeline for the polar bear.I hope you'll do your part today. Thank you.

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