Letter to Sen. Boxer from World-Leading Activist Bill McKibben and Head of Greenpeace...

Letter to Sen. Boxer from World-Leading Activist Bill McKibben and Head of
Greenpeace Says Stronger Global Warming Bill is Needed Than the One Which
Failed Today in the Senate

350.org to organize "human 350" outside Boxer's office tomorrow in San
Francisco

WASHINGTON, June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer
by leading author and activist Bill McKibben and cosigned by the leader of
Greenpeace USA says that the climate bill that failed today in the U.S. Senate
would have come nowhere close to doing what scientists say is needed to halt
global warming and stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at a safe level
of 350 parts per million.

350.org, an international campaign to keep the climate livable, will lead a
demonstration at 11:30 am tomorrow, Saturday, June 7, outside Boxer's office
at 1700 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, in which people will arrange
themselves to form a giant "350."

The joint letter says that debate over the Lieberman-Warner bill got "badly
off-track" and "left the legislation grotesquely riddled with loopholes and
with gifts to the fossil fuel industry." Also signing the letter with McKibben
is John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA.

"In the time between the original writing of the legislation and its eventual
demise, sea ice in the Arctic melted so dramatically that scientists
pronounced themselves 'shaken.' But the bill remained too weak," their letter
says.

The letter promises they will help lead a movement to support Boxer if next
year's bill measures up to the science: "A bill that simply 'gets something
done' isn't actually going to get anything accomplished. Only legislation that
meets the real challenge will do the trick. Introduce it, and fight for it,
and we will do our best to galvanize the climate movement across America to
back you up."

Today the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 385 parts per million,
and is projected to go much higher this century without a worldwide cut in
emissions and conversion to clean energy.

"Congress needs to do what the science demands," said May Boeve,
Co-Coordinator of 350.org.

Full text of the joint letter and more details are available at
www.kelleycampaigns.com/letter.html.

The campaign will launch a dramatic new website this coming Monday on its home
page at www.350.org.

SOURCE 350.org

May Boeve of 350.org, +1-707-815-0054; or Mike Crocker of Greenpeace USA,
+1-202-319-2471