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A polar bear walks along the edge of the icebridge in the Robeson channel, at 82.4' north, near the borderbetween Greenland and Canada. Polar bears are facingextinction as vast areas of their sea ice habitat disappear dueto global warming. Just days after this photograph was taken,the crew of Greenpeace’s
Arctic Sunrise
watched in awe assummer temperatures caused the Robeson ice bridge tocollapse into the sea. ©Nick Cobbing/ Greenpeace
Paris, France– Greenpeace activists deploy aninflatable iceberg in the River Seine, across from theEiffel Tower. The activists bear signs calling uponPresident Sarkozy to be a leader against globalwarming at the G8 Summit.
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Moscow, Russia– The walls of the Kremlin are lit upwith a call to action for Presidents Barack Obamaand Dmitry Medvedev to save the climate. PresidentObama was visiting the Kremlin just prior to the G8.
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• Carting Away the Oceans• Celebrities Say “No”to Nobu• Obama and the IWCIn the early morning hours ofJuly 8, 2009, a team of 11highly-trained Greenpeaceactivists set out to scale theface of Mount Rushmore.Followinganoldtrailandusingexistinganchorssetup by the park service, the activists rappelled downthe mountainside and unfurled a 2,300 square footbanner with a direct message to President Obama:“America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: StopGlobal Warming”It took the team over an hour to deploy theenormous banner, as they battled severe windconditions at dizzying heights.What these activistsaccomplished was nothing short of monumental,and I am proud to call each of them my friend andcolleague.The message on the Mount Rushmore banner washeard around the world. More than 800 newsoutlets, blogs, and television broadcasts followedthe story and global reaction to the event wasoverwhelmingly positive.That very same week, Greenpeace actions tookplace across the globe to coincide with the G8Summit in Italy. At the base of Paris’s Eiffel Tower,on the walls of Moscow’s Kremlin, and suspendedfrom the smokestacks of five coal-fired powerplants in Italy, Greenpeace called on the G8countries to stop playing politics and start takingserious action to combat global warming.Why go to such extreme efforts? Because theworld’s leaders are not doing what is needed tostop global warming. The science is clear.Industrialized countries must commit to a 40%reduction in global warming pollution, based on1990 levels, by the year 2020 – or else we canexpect changes that will constitute an entirelydifferent world than the one we currently live in.But rather than take the strongest position to com-bat global warming, we’re seeing a weak response.Todd Stern, President Obama’s Special Envoy forClimate Change, told an audience in March that“[r]educing [global warming pollution] 25-40%below 1990 levels would be a good idea if it weredoable” and that the science-based targets are“beyond the realm of the feasible.” This spring, theU.S. House of Representatives passed a weakglobal warming bill, filled with giveaways for dirtypolluters and far from the targets scientists say wemust reach.Taking the path of least resistance and ignoringscience in favor of what is“doable”is not the kind ofleadership needed to address the biggest environ-mental challenge of our lifetime. Greenpeace iscalling upon President Obama to return to thescience-based targets he promised and become aleaderintheglobalstruggleagainstglobalwarming.I promise you that Greenpeace will not back down.As you read through this newsletter, whether weare fighting global warming, combating tropicalrainforest destruction, or defending our oceans,please remember that it is your dedication thatserves as our inspiration and gives us the supportwe need to take action.For the Earth,Philip D.Radford
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