Petition To Stop Climate Alarmism Trumps Gore’s $300 Million Effort In Just 8 Days

PRESS RELEASE:

Chesapeake, VA—Over a span of just eight days and with minimal funding, a grassroots petition to Stop Climate Alarmism and the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax rallied more signers than Al Gore’s highly-touted $300 million ad blitz.

“Despite the media’s spin and Al Gore’s rants, many Americans don’t believe the Climate Alarmist agenda and strongly oppose the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax,” says Steve Elliott, President of Grassfire.org. “I think it is significant that, over a span of eight days, our petition rallied more signers than Al Gore’s effort which included expensive ad buys and has been heavily promoted by the media. People are beginning to question the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax.”

Gore’s “Alliance for Climate Protection” launched its $300 million blitz on March 31, and claims “over 1 million” signers to its petition. It has added less than 100,000 since Grassfire launched its petition. Elliott says many citizens are becoming skeptical of a new government taxing scheme to solve a debatable crisis, especially in the current economic climate. “With the mortgage crisis, rising gas prices and a tightening economy, the last thing we need is another massive government bureaucracy that will stifle the economy, take more of our money and control more of our lives.”

The goal of the petition, says Elliott, is to “give citizens who oppose Climate Alarmism and the $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax a voice in the upcoming Congressional debate. We could be on the leading edge of a grassroots counter insurgency against the so-called ‘consensus’ of Climate Alarmism.”

Elliott also notes that Grassfire’s petition ironically is, by Gore’s own standards, the more eco-friendly. “Since I’m certain that the ‘carbon footprint’ of our campaign is much smaller that Gore’s, our campaign is actually better for the environment.”

The Petition States:
By my signature below I hereby join the growing number of scientists and informed citizens deeply concerned by the dire predictions and proposed solutions of Climate Alarmists.

Fears that mankind has created a ‘planetary emergency’ are scientifically unfounded, and as such the doomsday predictions of Climate Alarmists are irresponsible and dangerous. Also, the solutions proposed by Climate Alarmists would have a harmful and possibly devastating impact on our economy, without any detectable climatic impact let alone benefit.

Given that "catastrophic Man-made global warming" is the sole justification, I oppose U.S. participation in the Kyoto treaty or any such successor agreement, mandatory domestic limits on CO2, and any federal or state carbon "tax” or “cap-and-trade” system
-- including the current Lieberman-Warner bill. Finally, any legislation containing mandatory provisions in the name of "climate change" must require demonstration, through cost-benefit or similar analysis, that its provisions would produce quantifiable climate benefit.

It is time to stop promoting dangerous Climate Alarmism and instead engage a free and open debate on environmental issues without the anti-scientific, anti-democratic intimidation tactics that increasingly accompany climate alarmism