Please Sign the Climate Change Emergency Petition

Please sign electronically at the bottom of this page. You will receive an immediate email copy and acknowledgment. Over 100,000 individuals have signed this petition and similar petitions worldwide! 

Climate Change Emergency Petition 

We, the citizens of our nation and of the Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act to preserve and protect the future of humanity and Earth's other biological life.

Our petition has four demands.

Based on abundant scientific evidence or our own climate change experiences, we recognize that:

a. The global climate is rapidly warming. 

b. Despite 60 years of credible scientific warnings, climate change and global warming are still rising and have reached dangerous levels, causing widespread deterioration across our climate and environment.

c. The global climate is becoming increasingly unstable due to atmospheric greenhouse gas pollution (carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide), which is dominantly coming from the burning of human-caused fossil fuels. This is an urgent crisis that demands immediate action.

We are now facing a rapidly worsening climate change scenario.

This climate change-driven environmental deterioration and escalating extinction threat can only be fixed by our politicians immediately enacting the scientifically correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Getting close to the 2025 global targets will dramatically reduce the damaging atmospheric carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide and prevent the worst consequences of climate change.

It will also help prevent the loss of at least 10 million lives a year worldwide from just the painful and debilitating health-related effects of the toxic air pollution caused by fossil fuel burning. 

If we do not get close to the 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, the frequency, severity, and size of global climate change consequences will rise dramatically from 2025-2031 and beyond and far beyond what we can quickly adapt to.

Many of these climate change consequences will be catastrophic and last for hundreds to thousands of years.

 

 

Therefore, I hereby demand that our politicians and government leaders meet to enact these four demands:

1. Declare a national and international Climate Change Emergency. (We will never be able to manage worsening climate change unless we call the climate change emergency that it really is.)

2. Immediately pass enforceable and verifiable national and international laws that will get us close to the required 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. (These climate change-related laws and actions are described here.)

3. Order an immediate government mass mobilization of ALL necessary resources and personnel to execute ALL required governmental actions to come as close as possible to the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. And finally,

4. Start the necessary climate change disaster preparation, adaptation, and resilience-building needed for soon-arriving, severe climate change consequences that our nation can no longer avoid or prevent. (About one-half of humanity could die off by 2050-2070 if our politicians fail us once again.)

By electronically signing this petition below, I am officially petitioning and demanding that my national politicians execute the four above actions to protect and preserve humanity and all biological life on Earth. 

Furthermore, realizing that the climate change consequences that are already occurring will take centuries to thousands of years to repair (creating an unbearable nightmare for surviving generations), I further pledge to continue to help resolve our intensifying climate change emergency until it is fixed!

Sign at the Bottom of this Page Now!

 

Additional Petition Information, If Needed:

1. See key information about how this petition will be used here.

2. When you sign the petition, you give us permission to email you your petition signature acknowledgment copy and occasional climate change emergency progress updates about once a month.

 

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  • Sydney Blackwood
    signed 2016-11-04 12:47:40 -0700
  • Lori Hunt
    signed 2016-11-04 10:26:56 -0700
    I sign this for love of Kara and Kyler and for all of the generations to come.
  • John Wands
    signed 2016-11-04 05:46:13 -0700
    After watching the Document , Before the flood i am more than convinced that we need a whole groundswell of Public opinion on the Subject of Globel Warming.
  • Marie Butcher
    signed 2016-11-03 20:29:01 -0700
    We need to leave a healthy world for those who come after us.
  • Tiffany Bartlett
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-11-02 19:28:59 -0700
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Tiffany Bartlett
    @g_bartlett91 tweeted link to this page. 2016-11-02 19:28:54 -0700
  • Tiffany Bartlett
    signed via 2016-11-02 19:26:35 -0700
  • Bailey Parkes
    signed 2016-11-02 09:57:56 -0700
    Canada
  • b,dtfyiv5 tm,bgjvukth
    signed 2016-11-02 07:33:21 -0700
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  • wengardium leviosa lamus solem
    signed 2016-11-02 05:06:16 -0700
  • Soumyadip Das
    signed 2016-11-02 00:13:53 -0700
  • Mark Martinek
    signed 2016-10-31 18:17:14 -0700
    Question Everything, Even the Warm Fuzzy ones.
  • Elizabeth Bartlett
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-10-31 16:26:04 -0700
    Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency!
  • Justin Makasa
    signed 2016-10-31 02:35:56 -0700
    Indeed Global Warming is a state of emergency. Here in Zambia (Africa) it is becoming hot to extremes, even cold seasons are no longer cold, most people used to have boreholes for as source of water but most wells are dry and people are really suffering. Global Warming is equal to no water, no vegetation, no energy, starvation, droughts e.t.c. Lets plant more trees and reduce on pollution.
  • Kelly Roy
    signed 2016-10-29 18:13:13 -0700
    Kelly Roy
  • Alan Hiatt
    signed 2016-10-29 12:20:00 -0700
    We owe it to our children and their children to take better care of their world.
  • inbar cohen
    signed 2016-10-29 09:35:36 -0700
  • P K Razack
    signed 2016-10-27 15:04:59 -0700
  • kwame emma baidoo
    signed 2016-10-26 09:33:08 -0700
    The earth is increasingly heating it need your actions and mine too to mitigate the heating effect by natural and anthropogenic factors
  • Tim Lipington
    signed 2016-10-25 08:49:59 -0700
    Man-made CO2 comprises 5% of total natural carbon emissions. Requires an additional to existing of 6 million sq km plus of dense forest just to balance and more to pull back say twice to three times
  • shannon Perkins
    signed 2016-10-23 12:02:42 -0700
    We need to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and keep them in the ground, Cars need to be replaced urgently for there are beyond billions which means each car that runs emits co2 into our atmosphere and warms the planet up by every switch of the key, We need to forget about the things that come underneath the matter of climate change and focus purely on that, stop building house and start creating wildlife parks in their places, start to regrow the forests which once covered the majority of the planet before we killed them in making room for factories. Stop talking and start cutting these factories off start to eliminate the ways we once had, i don’t care about the risks the planet comes before the people for we wouldn’t exist without the planet.
  • Nilanjan Das
    signed 2016-10-23 08:18:19 -0700
    I support
  • David Emerson McNair, Sr.
    signed 2016-10-22 15:14:04 -0700
    We can defeat GLOBAL WARMING in 5 years by using used oil tankers to take in sea water and convert it into fresh water, then freeze it into cargo cantainer sized, 50’Long x10tall and 10’wide, ice cubes. Each tanker produces 5,000 cargo container sized ice cubes per day. We will use heavy duty helicopters to carry the ice cubes to the glaciers . Imagine 25 used oil tankers 2 to 5 miles off the coast of Greenland’s glacier. We will place the ice cubes ,strategically, so that when the heavy winter weather roles in our ice cubes will trap the moisture and grow. This is very easy to achieve, and we’ll lower the ocean water tables by inches over the course of five years. The costs will be nominal because of the world wide contrabutions of money and equipment. Adding 125,000 cargo container sized ice cubes per day, to the Greenland glacier, for 50+ days, during the fall months will help us replenish the lost glacier ice. Also, we can use this technique to prevent wildfires from forming. By positioning used oil tankers off the coast of California, and on the Gulf. But we will freeze the ocean water into tree log sized ice cubes and place them in and around the dry, hot spots for wildfires. Say, 10,000 per day, tree logs sized ice cubes just melting. Providing much needed moisture in those targeted areas for wildfires. No more lost of life or property from wildfires ever again by using this technique. We will ship the tree logs sizes ice cubes by tractor trailer during the night time hours.
  • Phillip Nyoni
    signed 2016-10-22 14:26:47 -0700
    we are energetic as young people lets take a leading role we should protect our envirement
  • Dean Gwasira
    signed 2016-10-22 11:27:32 -0700
  • Azwitakadzi Tuwani
    signed 2016-10-22 09:30:57 -0700
    Severe droughts, floods, and wildfires must fall
  • Elsa Alberto
    signed 2016-10-21 12:58:16 -0700
  • mephibosheth lubanga
    signed 2016-10-21 05:15:08 -0700
    keep it up
  • john reed
    signed 2016-10-19 10:50:11 -0700
    please send me information on extreme weather condition as a scince teacher middle school.
  • benard kimani
    signed 2016-10-18 04:03:24 -0700