A Voice for Our Earth: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump & Ivanka Trump

“Dear President Obama & The United States Congress,

Tomorrow leaders from 192 countries will gather at The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to determine the fate of our planet.”

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Credit: NASA/NOAA. Series of images taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVER), which was launched on Feb. 11, 2015 and placed in a special orbit about 1,000,000 miles from Earth, where the gravitational attraction by the sun and Earth are perfectly balanced. This gives the EPIC camera an uninterrupted view of the fully sunlit side of the Earth, where it snaps full-Earth pictures about every 2 hours that are uploaded to the mission’s gorgeous website. Besides full color images, the EPIC camera snaps images in non-visible wavelengths enabling climate scientists to monitor the Earth’s energy balance by observing ozone and aerosol levels, cloud dynamics, and changes in vegetation and the solar reflectivity of land masses. All of us are rotating together in this series of images, protected by a fragile atmosphere mostly concentrated in a layer only about 10 miles thick.

“As business leaders we are optimistic that President Obama is attending Copenhagen with emissions targets. Additionally, we urge you, our government, to strengthen and pass United States legislation, and lead the world by example. We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today. Please don’t postpone the earth.

If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.

We recognize the key role that American innovation and leadership play in stimulating the worldwide economy. Investing in a Clean Energy Economy will drive state-of-the-art technologies that will spur economic growth, create new energy jobs, and increase our energy security all while reducing the harmful emissions that are putting our planet at risk. We have the ability and the know-how to lead the world in clean energy technology to thrive in a global market and economy. But we must embrace the challenge today to ensure that future generations are left with a safe planet and a strong economy.

Please allow us, the United States of America, to serve in modeling the change necessary to protect humanity and our planet.”

-Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and other American business leaders, in an open letter published as a full-page ad in The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2009, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (look for their signatures 2 lines from the bottom).


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