Gore's Petition to Congress

If you haven't signed Al Gore's petition to congress yet, now is the time to do so. Tomorrow Gore will testify at the Congressional hearings on global warming and has set a goal of 500,000 signatures on the petition - the more voices backing him up, the more power behind his message.

In his blog on his website, Gore talks about how concern over the environment is not just a liberal, democratic concern, but should be the concern of all political parties:

One of our goals must be to make this issue one that transcends partisanship. While many of the solutions to the climate crisis will be found within the political system, there should be bipartisan and transpartisan agreement on the basic nature of the crisis and the sense of urgency that is appropriate for us to solve it.

That point was brought home to me again last week when I visited London and met with the leaders of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. In the UK, both major political parties are completely committed to taking real action to solve the climate crisis. They openly acknowledge this is an unprecedented moral issue and are competing vigorously to see who can propose the most creative and effective solutions to solve this crisis.

The other day I was talking to my dad, who is pretty conservative, about global warming and he made some comment like, "My daughter, the liberal environmentalist," and I countered, "Liberals shouldn't be the only ones who care about the environment." He agreed.