The Climate Change Crises is Happening Now - We Need You to Help Us

Stop Global Warming - Add PURPOSE to Your Life Today

How much more warning do we need…

• An enormous ice shelf breaks away in the Canadian Arctic.

• The average temperature in Britain for 2006 was higher than at any time since records began in 1659. Globally, it looks set to be the sixth hottest year on record.

• This past year also found little winter snow in the Alpine ski resorts, continuing droughts in Africa, mountain glaciers melting faster than at any time in the past 5,000 years and Greenland's ice sheet sliding toward the sea.

• In March, NASA satellites monitored a 28-year record low for winter sea ice. Normally sea ice recovers during the long Arctic winter, but this was the second consecutive year that the ice failed to re-form fully to is previous winter extent.

• The world's oceans may rise up by more than four and a half feet by 2100 due to global warming, according to Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. This would threaten low-lying coasts from Florida to Bangladesh.

A middle-of-the-range projection is that the homes of 13 to 88 million people around the world would be flooded by the sea each year beginning in the 2080s, due to Global Warming and Climate Change melting the Polar and Artic ice caps. A report commissioned by the British government says coastal flooding and a shortage of drinking water could turn 200 million people into refugees. Poorer countries and small island nations will have the hardest time adapting. Scarcity of water and food could lead to major conflicts with broad ripple effects throughout the globe.

The most respected scientific organizations have stated unequivocally that global warming is happening, that we have a climate changing crises, and people, with their addiction to power and speed, are causing it by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. The consequences of continued warming at current rates will be dire.

"What we are doing now to the Earth is unprecedented," said Professor Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey. "So we cannot rule out the possibility that we are doing something… which will push the Earth into a domain where things will happen that have never happened before."

According to the British government, if we continue as we are, by 2050, the probability of dangerous climate change (a temperature change of 2 C to 5 C) is over 90 percent. This would have implications for human health, agriculture and economies, as well as for politics and security. For example, we can expect more floods and desertification, an increase in tropical diseases such as malaria, and the need to construct new coastal defenses to protect cities against rising sea levels.

Addressing a United Nations Conference in Nairobi on Nov. 15, then U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan castigated people who still hold some clouds of doubt about climate change and its effects irrespective of scientific proof, calling them "out of step, out of argument and out of time.'' He said that scientific arguments not withstanding, events taking place in various parts of the world provide enough proof that climate change exists and the "doubting Thomases" are only retarding progress to combat climate change.

According to the Alliance for Climate Protection, "We are at the crossroads of very serious problems confronting America and the world that are rooted in how we fuel and power our economies. Decades in the making, how we respond to global warming and our dependence on heavily polluting and insecure sources of energy - and whether we respond in time - will determine what kind of future and world we will have for decades and generations to come."

"Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity," said actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio. "We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet."

It is not enough to be just environmentalists, we must all become Earth arriors, Earth Warriors living with a PURPOSE. It is time to add PURPOSE to your life. We need you now to help us stop Global Warming, to help us battle this Climate Change Crises. Please join PURPOSE - People United Rightly Protecting Our Sacred Earth. Visit our websites today:

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With the beginning of a New Year, instead of making resolutions to loose weight or get in shape, why not make a resolution that really matters, a resolution to help save the planet, to help save the future. What could be more worthwhile. It's not a just a political issue, it's a moral issue. If we don't stop Global Warming, if we don`t start caring about the Climate Change Crises, all other problems and concerns won't matter. Begin now by living your life with PURPOSE - People United Rightly Protecting Our Sacred Earth.

Thanks,

Bill and Priscilla Johnson-Miles

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