Protect the Canadian Lynx from global warming

Climate change is already altering America's rich natural heritage and threatening countless species, including sea birds, butterflies, sea turtles, wild cats, fish, and scores of trees across the American landscape. If we don't act now to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, thousands of species across America are doomed.

Elusive solitary hunters, the lynx in mythology is known as the keeper of forest secrets. What will happen if these beautiful creatures and their secrets disappear because of global warming?

Lugar, Others Raise Climate Change Questions

Senator Richard Lugar [MP3] has raised new questions about U.S. climate change legislation in the absence of concrete moves by China and India to commit to cuts in climate warming pollution. Top foreign relations Republican Lugar says Congressional Democrats who recently visited China, hope Beijing will play a constructive role at a global climate change summit in December. “They of course, were looking toward the Copenhagen conference, later on, in which there are some hopes of some type of agreement, that would involve the United States and China, and India.”
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Lugar foreign relations colleague and Asia panel chair James Webb predicts a climate bill will fail in the senate, unless China gets serious in Copenhagen. “I, quite frankly, don’t think there are the votes here, in the United States Senate, to pass climate change legislation, without concrete obligations from China.”

NPPC Confirms Opposition to Climate Change Legislation

Lucas Speaks Out Against Climate Change Bill, Process

The Ranking Member of the House Ag Committee - Frank Lucas - notes the National Pork Producers Council is just one of the latest agriculture groups publicly expressing opposition to the Waxman-Markey legislation. He says the list of ag groups opposed to the climate change bill has grown from 23 to 115 in just a month's time. He says it's clear the ag community doesn't believe this bill is in the best interest of farmers and ranchers. Lucas joined the Ranking Members of the seven other committees with jurisdiction over the bill for a press coference to oppose efforts by Democratic leaders to block full and open debate on the measure.

During the press conference Friday - Lucas pointed out the agriculture committee has had one hearing on this bill without a markup in sight. He says the eight witnesses at that hearing - covering a variety of rural interests - did not endorse the bill as it currently reads. Even Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack - he noted - called the bill a work in progress. According to Lucas - this is not the way you create law.