Hey!(hey): Polar bear alert

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If you guys are interested, check out this news and email Norton -- I used to work at the NRDC and they're a pretty good organization. (I hope I can post the entire content of this email w/o violating any rules):

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Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

BioGems Defenders like you have fought for years to protect the polar bear's
habitat by blocking oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
and the Western Arctic Reserve. Now, these majestic bears need your help on
another front.

At this moment, the polar bear's Arctic habitat is literally melting away
beneath it due to global warming. If we don't intervene now, these majestic
bears may not survive beyond the next few decades.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/polar/takeaction.asp
and send a message urging Interior Secretary Gale Norton to protect polar bears
as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Global warming has already taken a serious toll on the large expanses of summer
sea ice that polar bears depend on for survival. Since 1979, more than 20
percent of the polar ice cap has disappeared. Yet the Bush administration
refuses to lift a finger to help the polar bear.

Leading scientists now warn that if current rates of global warming continue,
the polar bear could face extinction by the end of this century.

To head off this unthinkable tragedy, NRDC is launching a campaign of intense
public and courtroom pressure to compel the administration to act. We have just
put the Interior Secretary on notice that we will be taking her agency to
federal court on behalf of the polar bear.

Please join our effort to protect polar bears by speaking out right now. Go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/polar/takeaction.asp
and call on the Interior Secretary to take the first step toward ensuring a
future for the polar bear by listing it as a threatened species.

Thank you for taking action.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council