WESTMINSTER, Colo.—In advance of Earth Day, Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald, former President of the Colorado State Senate and a candidate for the Second Congressional District, released a podcast today after a series of meetings and discussions with the world’s leading scientists and scholars on climate change and global warming.
Senator Fitz-Gerald spent the weekend volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and planting trees. Tomorrow for Earth Day she will be participating in a radio show on climate change, a luncheon for Eco Cycle and a clean up of Boulder Creek.
Listen to the podcast at:
http://www.clickcaster.com/items/finding-solutions-to-global-warming-2 [1]
In the podcast, Senator Fitz-Gerald said,
The problem has become abundantly clear: The earth is heating up and drastic solutions are necessary if we are stop global warming. We must do something about accumulating green house gases now.
The encouraging opportunity is that those solutions are being developed right here in Colorado. We have tremendous intellectual capacity in the 2nd Congressional District. We have NCAR, NREL, NIST and NOAA, not to mention scholars and scientists at the University of Colorado. In all likelihood, the solutions to global warming will be developed right here in this district.
If I am elected to Congress, I intend to use this intellectual capacity to it’s fullest. In Congress, I would be a strong supporter of legislation to establish a more aggressive national renewable energy standard as well as call for stricter fuel efficiency standards. I cosponsored legislation that was signed into law that doubled the renewable energy standard requiring utility company’s of Colorado to get 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020—up from 10 percent.
Senator Fitz-Gerald concluded the podcast,
Our district includes some of the greatest scientists in the world. I am honored to have the support of people like Eric Cornell who won the Nobel Prize in Physics. It is vital we give our scientists the support and tools they need to confront global warming. Our planet depends on it.