April 21, 2017

To My Members of Congress:
Mr. Trump's continued attempts to jeopardize critical protections for our air, water, climate and
health are outrageous. I urge you, I implore you: Oppose any action by his administration to:

Dismantle the Clean Power Plan and other critical measures to save our climate and
build a clean energy future

Cut the EPA's budget and staff, drastically undermining the agency's ability to defend our
environment

Cut the Climate Research Budget of NASA, or NOAA, or any other Executive Branch
Agency, including ongoing Arctic and Antarctic research efforts and projects

Roll back vital clean car standards that would dramatically reduce carbon pollution from
cars and trucks

Permit the disastrous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline to
operate.

Weaken or eliminate fundamental protections for clean water, clean air and public
health

Move to sell off any of Our Public Lands, National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, or National
Monuments to any corporate interest, or allow drilling, fracking, logging or extraction on
same.
Mr. Trump's rash decisions will have devastating consequences for generations to come. We
elected You to represent Our Interests. Please do your part to help stop his administration's
anti-environment assault by standing strong. Take every possible action against any actions that
threaten the American people, our environment, our lands, and our health.
Please examine these two images below. They may impress upon You the imminent and
emergent threat to our planet that Climate Change signals.

Here is the Global Climate Snow/Ice Mass Balance from the most recent
available Data:
[for chart see this letter online at http://bit.ly/APRIL2017_LETTER2CONGRESS ]

Here are the Global Climate Average Temperatures from 1979 2000:
[for chart see this letter online at http://bit.ly/APRIL2017_LETTER2CONGRESS ]

Sea Level Rise

I urge You to consider the very real rising ocean levels and their ongoing destruction and
imminent threat to our coastal areas.
Please avail Yourself of the resources of http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/ which include a page
that will let You explore the effects of sea level increases anywhere on earth. It is interactive.
Ive set the link to show the populations-at-risk effects on Washington, DC if the Sea Level rises
5 feet.
[for chart see this letter online at http://bit.ly/APRIL2017_LETTER2CONGRESS ]

As You can see, the data comes from NOAA, whose Budget Mr. Trump wants to eliminate.
Not only are our Coastal Populations at risk from rising sea levels, but so are some of our most
essential Wildlife Refuges and National Parks.
Here is an excellent examination of the threat to 3 Coastal National Parks:
https://savingplaces.org/stories/sea-change-climate-change-coastal-national-parks

Other Climate Change Threats

But sea level rise is not the only threat Climate Change poses to our National Parks. This
informative item discusses the threat of Climate Change to the entire National Park System:
http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/overview/

Suppression & Censorship of Scientific Research

Finally there is the ongoing threat Mr. Trump poses to our Scientific Community and their
Research Data. Whole datasets are becoming unavailable. Some Climate Change research has
been preserved by outside organizations like ClimateMirror.org and I have personally gone out
and created short, easy to remember bitlinks to archived snapshots of Federal Departments
under Threat of Censorship by Mr. Trump and his rabid anti-environment and fossil-fuel
advocating minions. The list is also an easy to remember bitlink: http://bit.ly/THREATSITES2
So I am trying to do my part, as a Citizen (and Voter) to preserve the essential Climate Change
Data and combat the very real threat Mr. Trump poses to our Clean Air, Water, National Parks &
Wildlife Refuges, and our very Rule of Law. I hope I can expect You to do the same.
Thank You for Your Service as My Member of Congress.

Sincerely,
David Manchester (@dredeyedick)
New London, CT