URGENT: PLEASE SIGN THIS CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PETITION TO THE SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

[Jorge Rebagliati]

 Dear Friends:

The Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Campaign (A member of SoCoCAN) has written the petition"SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW" (See below and in the attachment) to be delivered at the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, 575 Administration Drive, Room 100 A, Santa Rosa, CA, on Thursday, May 31st, 2018.

Please support this petition by signing it and by joining us when we delivered it on 5/31/18.  We apologize for the short notice to sign this petition but we trust that it can be done with your enthusiastic support. 

 You can sign the petition in person at Jorge's home in Santa Rosa by calling 707-578-6049, by faxing your signed copy at the same phone number or by scanning the signed copy and e-mailing it to jorge...@sbcglobal.net.

Please sign it like this:

Signature

Name in print

Title, profession

Organization (if any)

We will soon inform you about the time when we will deliver the signed petition copies to the Board.

This is a propitious time to submit this petition because:

1) James Gore, District 4 supervisor and chairman of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors recently e-mailed Jorge to inform him about the Sonoma County Climate Change Action Resolution the Board had issued on May 8th, 2018, and acknowledged that it is not the "binding declaration that Jorge and his partners are seeking".  (See below a copy of his e-mail).

From: district4 <dist...@sonoma-county.org>
To: Jorge R. Rebagliati <thebidet...@sbcglobal.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 9:33 AM
Subject: Climate Change Action Resolution 

Thank you for your continued messages.  

Working to get more and more involved in the Governor’s Global Climate Action Summit in September.  

RCPA brought us this resolution that we passed today.  I understand you and your partners desire a binding declaration rather than a resolution.  

I like this resolution that was brought to us and supported it.  

http://sonoma-county.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=940&meta_id=241889

2) The April 19th, 2018 public statement of California Governor Jerry Brown that billions of humans will perish if Climate Change is not addressed very vigorously and that not even California is doing enough to alter that future.

Jerry Brown: 3 Billion Will Die from Global Warming

Jerry Brown: 3 Billion Will Die from Global Warming California Gov. Jerry Brown predicted that if carbon emissions aren’t reduced, billions of people will die from ...

3) Eastern U. S. is already repeating recent Climate Change-Related Disasters, like in Ellicott City, Maryland (Same territories experiencing disasters similar to the ones experienced in recent years) .

Catastrophic Flooding Slams Ellicott City, Baltimore Region; Water Rescues Reported | The Weather Channel

Catastrophic Flooding Slams Ellicott City, Baltimore Region; Water Rescues ... Officials have urged residents to stay indoors and heed all weather advisories.

Please sign this petition by 5/30/18 in any of the ways we suggested and join us to submit it to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.  Our unity may work out the miracle we are all wishing for.

If you have contacts in the media please invite them to cover the delivery of the petition (Let us know if you do that)

Roni Jacobi (Our chosen candidate for the 2nd District State Senatorial seat) is planning on participating in the delivery of the petition.

Thank you,

Jorge Rebagliati

Veronica "Roni"Jacobi (State Senator Candidate for the 2nd District)

Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Campaign

"We are the ones we've been waiting for"

DECLARATION: "Climate Crisis Is Already A Major Disaster"

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PETITION

SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE

MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW

Santa Rosa, California 

May 31st, 2018

The organizations and individuals signing below respectfully urge the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to issue an official, public, binding, in-writing and detailed Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration by June 10th, 2018.

The purpose of such a Declaration is to immediately commit all the resources of the County of  Sonoma to Climate Restoration and to Climate Change Adaptation to minimize the effects of future Climate Change-Related Disasters to come, in order to transform Sonoma County into a Climate Change-Ready County.

The May 8th, 2018 Climate Change Action Resolution by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors supporting the Climate Action 2020 will be upgraded to binding by the Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration, with the greater goal of turning Sonoma County into a Greenhouse Gases Emissions-Negative territory in the shortest possible time, and to guide the urgent Climate Change Adaptation work, particularly needed for the prevention and fighting of fires.

Furthermore, the purpose of such a Declaration is for the County to become eligible to receive external funding and other resources from State, Federal and private sources.

Sonoma County has been in an undeclared state of emergency since the October 2017 Fire Storms which is threatening the chances for a future in which Sonomans can survive and thrive.

The rebuilding of the 5,283 homes destroyed in the October, 2017 Fire Storms does not have a clear and intelligent master plan to minimize the chances of being destroyed again by the forces of Climate Change.  Additionally, the rebuilding (in any form) is unlikely with an average insurance gap for the owners of those destroyed homes of $317,000, totaling a deficit of funding close to $1.7 billion.

The deterioration of the Climate due to human economies' Greenhouse Gas Emissions is happening at a rate faster that what the most pessimistic scientists have predicted.  Such a deterioration is shown in real disasters such as the mega fires in California and the hurricanes in the South Eastern United States, and in the worsening of the parameters of the Climate such as: the slowing down of the Gulf Stream, CO2 atmospheric readings of over 410 ppm, increasing average air and water temperatures, increasing wind speeds, irreversible melting of land ice masses, massive reduction of sea ice, etc.

Our own California Governor, Jerry Brown, has recently projected the death of three to four billion humans if Climate Change is not radically acted upon, and has recognized that, not even California is doing nearly enough to stop such devastation.

The Climate Change Major Disaster Declarations are a powerful tool to turn around the trajectory of self destruction and of destruction of the biosphere we, and most of the rest of humanity, are currently in.  Please heed our demand to save everything we love.

 ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW.

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[Jorge Rebagliati]

  Dear Friends:

4) Our "California Governor: Declare Climate Change A Major Disaster Before It's Too Late" has grown by close to 50% since April 30, 2018.

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Please sign this petition to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors by 5/30/18 in any of the ways we suggested and join us to submit it to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.  Our unity may work out the miracle we are all wishing for.

[Jorge Rebagliati]

We are sending this e-mail one more time with the attached petition document in PDF format, so you do not have difficulties opening it.

 

"We are the ones we've been waiting for"

DECLARATION: "Climate Crisis Is Already A Major Disaster"

[Jorge Rebagliati]

Dear friends:

Thanks to those of you that have already signed the "SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW" petition.

I remind the rest of you that we are trying to get the rest of the signatures by tomorrow and deliver the signed petition to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Thursday (5/31/18).

This is an opportunity to show real unity of purpose and our commitment to achieve a meaningful solution to Climate Change.  Please take a few minutes to support this petition with your signature.

Thanks,

Jorge Rebagliati

Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Campaign

SoCoCAN

[Jorge Rebagliati]

Dear friends:

This is the last reminder to get your signatures to us today for the "SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW" petition.

In our first e-mail at the bottom you will find the 3 ways that you can sign the petition.

Please be aware that Climate Change Action is not anymore just about saving the Earth but also about saving your own life and the lives of the people you love.  Only massive and immediate action can have a chance of succeeding.  If we can get the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to issue the Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration, a big step will have been taken for both goals in Sonoma County and elsewhere.

Please sign the petition.  This is very important.

Love,

Jorge

Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Campaign

SoCoCAN

 

"We are the ones we've been waiting for"

DECLARATION: "Climate Crisis Is Already A Major Disaster"

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[Jorge Rebagliati]

Dear friends:

We will be delivering the "SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW" petition tomorrow Thursday, 5/31/18 at 4:00 pm at the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chamber, 575 Administration Drive, Room 100 A, Santa Rosa, CA.

We will gather at 3:40 pm in front of Room 100 A to get organized, give time for people to arrive, sign the petition if you have not done it ahead of time and, perhaps, talk to reporters if they come.

Please e-mail me back if you are pretty sure you can come tomorrow.  Needless to say that "the more the merrier".

I want to assure those of you that are still deciding about signing this petition that the Climate Change-Ready Sonoma County that this petition asks for, includes ALL the Climate Change Action projects you are working on.

Thank you,

Jorge

Climate Change Major Disaster Declaration Campaign

SoCoCAN

 

"We are the ones we've been waiting for"

DECLARATION: "Climate Crisis Is Already A Major Disaster"

[Jorge Rebagliati]

 Dear friends:

We will be delivering the "SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ISSUE A CLIMATE CHANGE MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION NOW" petition today Thursday, 5/31/18 at 4:00 pm at the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Chamber, 575 Administration Drive, Room 100 A, Santa Rosa, CA.

We will gather at 3:40 pm in front of Room 100 A to get organized, give time for people to arrive, sign the petition if you have not done it ahead of time and, perhaps, talk to reporters if they come.

Please e-mail me back (or call me at 707-578-6049) if you are pretty sure you can come today.  Needless to say that "the more the merrier".