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If you're a planet, too hot is bad. Hotter temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, heat waves. But when it comes to turning up the heat to fight global warming -- on the president and Congress, governors and state legislators, automakers and electric companies -- there's no such thing as too hot.
How to fight it? Acknowledging a problem, they say, is the first step toward solving it. We know we have a problem, and we know what's causing it -- a thickening layer of pollution, mostly carbon dioxide from power plants and automobiles, that traps heat in the atmosphere.
We also know how to solve it: cleaner cars and cleaner electricity. These are not pie-in-the-sky ideas. Technologies exist today to make cars that run cleaner and burn less gas, generate electricity from wind and sun, modernize power plants, and build refrigerators, air conditioners and whole buildings that use less power.
But these solutions won't be used widely enough to stop the rising temperatures until our business leaders change the way they operate and our elected leaders demand it. On this page we offer tools for reaching U.S. leaders and will spotlight opportunities to participate, quickly and easily, in decisions that could stop this crisis -- or contribute to it. So sign up to get our email bulletin, bookmark this page, learn more with the links at right, and turn up the heat!
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