Polar Bear SOS - You Can Help!
While the Bush Administration refuses to clamp down on America’s biggest global warming polluters . . .
. . . there are alarming new reports of POLAR BEARS STARVING in the Arctic and being driven to extremes of survival behavior because of the rapidly changing climate.
I’ll share more about it below. But first, I need you to take IMMEDIATE ACTION because new global warming bills are being debated in Congress — and they could be a critical factor in saving the polar bear from extinction.
In advance of key votes on a global warming bill, we must build the ranks of concerned Americans who are committed to saving polar bears by making their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
Go to the Tell-A-Friend page of our Polar Bear SOS website and send out as many SOS messages as you can to your friends and
family: http://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends
That way, when a tough global warming bill is nearing a vote, we can alert millions of online activists to support it — and win its passage into law.
Right now, the need for such legislation is distressingly apparent. The Arctic spring in Greenland is coming two weeks earlier than it did in 1996 — a rate of climate change that far outstrips warming trends seen elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.
As the sea ice melts earlier and earlier each year, there have been more and more reports of starving polar bears being forced to resort to heart-breaking acts of desperation.
Only last summer, an adult bear — his hip bones visible through his hide — killed a polar bear cub for food in the first-ever eyewitness account of polar bear infanticide.
The scientists who observed this never-before-seen behavior linked the killing of the cub — and other recent reports of polar 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 to accelerate, tragic incidents like these will become more frequent. This is the terrible and inexcusable toll that global warming is taking on the polar bear.
And our very best hope to prevent an even bigger tragedy is to start cutting our global warming pollution now.
So while you have this message in front of you — please rally your friends in support of imperiled polar bears by sending SOS messages to as many people as you can at http://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends
Thanks to you, we prevailed in court and forced the Bush Administration to propose giving the polar bear federal protection. Then, we deluged the administration with hundreds of thousands of Citizen Comments in support of that protection.
Now, with your help, we’ll be poised and ready to unleash the power of one million online activists in support of global warming legislation that could be a lifeline for the polar bear. I hope you’ll do your part today. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
P.S. Want to do more to rush to the aid of the polar bear? Go to our http://www.polarbearsos.org website now.
