"Your leadership is urgently needed to seize the small window of opportunity that remains to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change now and for future generations."
An open letter from U.S. scientists to the Biden Administration and Congress:
As our nation reels from extreme heat waves, drought, wildfires, and abnormally warm ocean waters fueled an early start to a projected more active than normal Atlantic hurricane season, we are reminded that climate change is here and already exerting a fearsome toll on people, critical ecosystems, and our economy. Your leadership is urgently needed to seize the small window of opportunity that remains to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change now and for future generations.
Science shows that we must take immediate action to sharply reduce heat-trapping emissions to limit the worst climate change impacts, protect public health and lives, and limit economic harms. We also have a tremendous opportunity to invest in a climate-resilient economy, powered by clean energy, which can bring benefits to all communities in a just and equitable way, as outlined in the original American Jobs Plan. To size the level of action to the scope of the problem requires a robust scale of investment in climate related priorities.
Now is the time for Congress and the Biden administration to act, working together to implement a
range of robust and necessary climate solutions.