Our petition recieved a good push today as we it was documented under wikipedia's value of Kyoto Protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Support_for_Kyoto

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We're now standing at 344

I was hoping we could get to 500 by the end of the weekend, I guess that won't happen but we have to push it beyond the 400.

I've posted the link of the petition in some of the envirolink pages, some should already host the link, others will take about a week to add the link to their sites.

Does anyone of you have a homepage?

We should get more people who has websites to add the petition link to their sites.

Keep on working - We'll get there!

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We Currently have 476 signatures.

This is after I've posted another alert today calling people to urgently sign the petition and this is not enough of course.

I'd like the petition to push through the 500 signature line before it is one month old - meaning - By Febuary 3rd 4:36 p.m. PST.

Please pass it on to all your friends if you haven't done so yet and publish alerts with the petition link to your network in the next few days. It shuoldn't be that hard to get another 24 people to sign the petition in 48 hours.

One more thing you can do is bump posts regarding the petition in other groups by calling people to sign it. I've done so in several groups and don't want to over do it myself as for not to be regarded a spammer.

Come let's give it another push forward!

Thank you!

Erez Luke Cohen

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We have reached the 500 sigs before the end of the first month but we must push onwards. The only way we can prove a ripple effect is by reach more than 1000 signatures by the end of the second month.

The project's website will be up and running this weekend.

If anyone surfs websites and forums outside care2 - it's time to spread the word outside the network, as care2 signatures are becoming harder and harder to harvest.

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THE world's worst fears about global warming and rapid sea-level rise will be realised or exceeded, according to two new reports.

Australian climate change research published yesterday found the average level of the oceans had risen 19.5cm since 1870 and the rate was increasing.

The study provides the first evidence of a 20th-century acceleration in sea-level rise and supports predictions the world's oceans will rise 31cm above 1990 levels by 2100.

A separate report released in Britain paints an ever more alarming picture, suggesting ice sheets may be melting, raising the prospect of sea levels rising by 5m over several centuries.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the research clearly showed that "the risks of climate change may well be greater than we thought".

"It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialisation and economic growth from a world population that has increased six-fold in 200 years, is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable," Mr Blair writes in a foreword to the research.

Published in the report Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, it warns of large-scale disruption if temperatures rise above 3C - within the range of climate change models for this century.

The author of the Australian research, internationally renowned CSIRO chief research scientist John Church, said it was now clear there would be significant sea-level rise without major changes to human behaviour. "Clearly, sea-level rise will be reported in metres unless we have a substantial decrease in greenhouse gas emissions," Dr Church told The Australian.

He said his study, conducted with CSIRO scientist Neil White using data from tide gauges and satellite measurements, vindicated sea-level rise projections by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"Although predicted by models, this is the first time a 20th-century acceleration has actually been detected."

The study concludes that sea levels rose an average 16cm during the 20th century, with a rough year-on-year increase of 1.7cm.

It finds that sea level rise began during the first half of the 19th century, when global sea level was about 20cm below current levels. A comparison of sea-level benchmarks carved in rock on the Isle of the Dead, near Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1840, and the height of ancient Roman fish tanks, indicated little sea level increase until 1800.

The study, part of Australia's Climate Change Science Program, is likely to be considered at the IPCC's global climate change assessment next year.

The British research, based on a forum of scientists at Exeter last February, includes a warning from British Antarctic Survey head Chris Rapley that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be starting to melt.

Scientists believe the melting of the ice sheet would eventually raise sea levels around the world by 5m.

"The last IPCC report characterised Antarctica as a slumbering giant in terms of climate change. I would say it is now an awakened giant," Professor Rapley writes. "There is real concern."

The report warns a delay of even five years in reducing greenhouse gas emissions "could be significant".

The federal Opposition said the findings highlighted the need for Australia to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

Additional reporting: Agencies

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for more background read

http://environment.about.com/od/kyotoprotocol/i/kyotoprotocol_1.htm

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The past three days have brought our petition 122 signatures.

Our dear Agnes C. have sent messages and e-mails to all her friends and called them to sign the petition.

A reminder was posted on all big groups on Care2 and I posted a call for signatures on Israeli Environmental Forums.

Agnes has proved the importance of sending the petition to friends via messages and e-mails. If you hadn't done so, please send the petition so we can get more leverage from this wave of signatures.

Erez Luke

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