Chuck: help us amplify Sheldon's 100th call for action

Robert,
It's time to take action on climate change.
How many times have you stood up for a single issue you believed in? Would you tell your colleagues about it 10, 20, or even 50 times? Would you make it the one of the central causes of your life's work?
Well -- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse just gave his 100th speech on climate change on the floor of the Senate.
In recognition of Sheldon's accomplishment, I'm joining with my colleagues, Senators Barbara Boxer, Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin, Al Franken, and Tammy Baldwin, as well as leading environmental groups, to commend Sheldon and recognize his remarkable dedication to our future and our environment -- but also to call for real, meaningful Senate action on climate change on the occasion of his 100th speech.
I've watched Sheldon's following grow, speech after speech, as more and more Americans began to wake up to climate change. He has pushed our colleagues -- and the national debate -- toward accepting the realities of climate change: it's here, it's linked to carbon pollution, it threatens American livelihoods, and every public servant in our nation should be considering how to adapt to and mitigate its unavoidable effects.
Our colleagues haven't made it easy: Senator James Inhofe, charged with chairing the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, recently presented a snowball on the Senate floor as proof that climate change is a "hoax." And Mitch McConnell recently authored a letter to the governors of all fifty states, urging them to flout the EPA and its smart, tough new limits on carbon pollution.
Meanwhile, the global annual average temperature has leapt up by more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 135 years -- and communities from Los Angeles to Providence have felt the impacts of extreme weather in the form of droughts, wildfires, flooding, or dangerous heat waves. In New York, we are still rebuilding from Hurricanes Lee, Irene, and Sandy, and we worry about the severity of this year’s storms.
But Sheldon isn't shaken: He strives to bring sane, commonsense, science-backed policy to addressing one of the biggest issues of our lifetime in order to save lives, businesses, and property from the devastating effects of climate change.
Thanks for all you do,
Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senator

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