Time to Act on Global Warming

The Detroit Free Press ran an editorial on the opportunity we all have now to address global warming in a constructive, systematic way. It's not only necessary, it's urgent. "Time's short for planet; we need the right national response, and quickly," says the editorial.

Moreover, the editorial addresses an urgent new report on global warming from the Commerce Department's NOAA Earth System Research Lab in Boulder:

Skeptics converge on global warming data like ants at a picnic, but their reasoning often skips from one random sound bite to the next in their attempt to discount the experts. Meanwhile, serious studies point increasingly to human-caused warming, more potential damage, and faster change -- at a pace that plants and animals, if not all people, will have trouble adapting to. Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air will cause droughts and rising sea levels for the next millennium, according to climate researcher Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., in a report issued last week.

This is a time for individuals and organizations to speak up on global warming and tell their representatives in Congress that the country needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more on fighting global warming at Carbonfund.org's site. Find out about what scientists and activists say we need for a target on emissions reductions in resources such as Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) fact sheet.