Prof. Ron M. Linton, Terracide: America's Destruction of her Living Environment (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970)

Michael Allaby, A Chronology of Weather (New York: Facts on File, 1998) (Re "warning" of global warming, certain "atmospheric gases partially absorb the long-wave heat radiated from the land and sea surface after it has been warmed by the Sun; the absorbed heat warms the air [re What is] now being predicted . . . no warming has ever happened so fast. . . . we would be foolish to ignore the warning," p 7)

An Inconvenient Truth (documentary on the dangers of climate change and global warming)

"£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change" (Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming)

"Climate change fight 'can't wait'" (The UK prime minister urges swift action as a report warns climate change could shrink the global economy by 20%)

"Climate Change is Killing the Oceans' Microscopic 'Lungs'" (by Steve Connor, in the Independent (UK, 7 December 2006).

"U.N. finds threats from climate change quickly heating up" (Global warming is a rapidly advancing threat to human life, according to the authors of a major, comprehensive United Nations report released 8 April 2007 in Brussels.)

"Scientists get last say in climate study" (Diplomats from 115 countries and 52 scientists hashed out the most comprehensive and gloomiest warning yet about the possible effects of global warming, from increased flooding, hunger, drought and diseases to the extinction of species, 9 April 2007)

"The 11th Hour" (2007) (movie "documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions") (Trailer)

Tom Engelhardt, "Running Out of History" (The Nation, 12 May 2008) (cites "new information on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [shows] it's at a record high of 387 parts per million (ppm), "up almost 40% since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last 650,000 years." 650,000 years. Think of that. The historical era is well less than 10,000 years old. According to a recent study by renown NASA climatologist Jim Hansen published in Science magazine, "if we wish to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed," we need to create the necessary conditions that will return us to 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere--and soon. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, who has started a new website called 350.org calls that 350 "the most important number on Earth." And, it cites changes "without historical precedent." In other words, there was nothing (repeat, nothing) in the historical record that provided a guide to what might happen next.")

Emily Dugan, "An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth" (The independent (UK), 16 May 2008) ("the current extinction rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has historically been recorded as normal. . . . The study picked out five reasons for species decline, all of which can be traced back to human behaviour: climate change, pollution, the destruction of animals' natural habitat, the spread of invasive species, and the overexploitation of species.")

Tim Harper, "Earth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns" (The Toronto Star, 24 June 2008) ("We have reached a point of planetary emergency,” he said. “There are tipping points in the climate system, which we are very close to, and if we pass them, the dynamics of the system take over and carry you to very large changes which are out of your control.”)

Shannon Jones, "US scientist calls for prosecution of energy company CEOs for global warming disinformation" (26 June 2008) ("In testimony before the US Congress on Monday, James Hansen, a leading climatologist, called heads of major energy companies criminals who should be prosecuted for deliberately spreading false and misleading information about the threat posed by global warming." See 18 USC § 1001.)

Meg White, "As Alaskan Village Sinks Into the Sea, GAO Says We Need to Create U.S. Office for Climate Change Refugee Assistance" (4 June 2009)

Alexander Zaitchik, "The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive" (7 July 2009). See also Prof. James E. Lovelock, Ph.D. (Medicine, 1948), CH, CBE, FRS, The Revenge of Gaia (2006) and The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (Basic Books, 2009) ("Gaia Theory holds that Earth possesses a sophisticated planetary intelligence that responds to levels of heat from the sun in such a way as to maintain a climate homeostasis supportive of life. In four decades of research and experiment, the most famous being the 'Daisyworld' model [the evidence did] officially move Gaia from a Hypothesis to a Theory. He [Lovolock] has established that the various components of the biosphere -- plants, animals, minerals, gases, the sun’s heat -- interact in such a way as to create and maintain a climate amenable to life. Far from a passive collection of independent actors responding to conditions, the biosphere’s contents, including humans, form a living web which actively creates and maintains those conditions. Gaia prefers these conditions and will do her best to maintain them. But there is a limit to how much Gaia can do if we keep running over the safety mechanisms -- negative feedback loops -- she puts in our path. Lovelock believes that we have pushed Gaia beyond the point of return. The cold seas, for example, can only pump down so much of our carbon before they cry mercy and turn to acid..")

Bill McKibben, The End of Nature (1989) ("the first book for a general audience about climate change")

"Study: Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger," by the Associated Press (31 July 2005)

"Global warming may pump up hurricane power," by Jeff Hecht, the NewScientist.com news service (13:44 01 August 2005).

"World's Most Important Crops Hit by Global Warming Effects," by Science Editor Steve Connor, in The Independent (19 March 2007).

Seth Borenstein (AP Science Writer), "NASA Study: Eastern U.S. to Get Hotter" (Associated Press, 11 May 2007) ("Instead of daily summer highs in the 1990s that averaged in the low to mid 80s Fahrenheit, the eastern United States is in for daily summer highs regularly in the low to mid 90s, the study found." "In the 2080s, the average summer high will probably be 102 degrees in Jacksonville, 100 degrees in Memphis, 96 degrees in Atlanta, and 91 degrees in Chicago and Washington." And: "simulated results for July 2085 . . . forecasted temperatures . . . past uncomfortable into painful. The study showed a map where the average high in the southeast neared 115 and pushed 100 in the northeast. Even Canada flirted with the low to mid 90s." (The study abstract is online: Lynn, B.H., R. Healy, and L.M. Druyan, 2007: An analysis of the potential for extreme temperature change based on observations and model simulations. J. Climate, 20, 1539-1554, doi:10.1175/JCLI4219.1).

Tim Johnson, "Warming Triggers ‘Alarming’ Retreat of Himalayan Glaciers, McClatchy Newspapers (Saturday, 12 May 2007) ("Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps getting warmer at the current rate.”)

Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, "Global warming 'is three times faster than worst predictions'" (The Independent, 3 June 2007)

Amelia Gentleman, "Chair of UN climate panel 'stunned' to share Nobel Prize with Gore" (International Herald Tribune, 12 October 2007) ("more than two decades first working on making the links between man's activities and climate change, and then on convincing the world's population of the damage those activities were doing")

Steve Connor, Science Editor, "No ice at the North Pole: Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change" (27 June 2008) ("It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.")

Duncan Clark, "World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted in Next Five Years, Study Warns" (The Guardian/UK, 27 July 2009) ("the new research suggests, temperatures will shoot up at 150% of the rate predicted")

Bonnie Malkin, "Climate Change to Force 75 Million Pacific Islanders From Their Homes" (The Telegraph/UK, 27 July 2009) ("Pacific Islanders were already feeling the effects of global warming, including food and water shortages, rising cases of malaria and more frequent flooding and storms. Some had already been forced from their homes and the number of displaced people was rising")

Dan Vergano, "Future US Heat Waves Will Be Worse" (USAToday, 26 August 2009) ("The nation is headed for strong heat waves in coming decades that will hit cities and farmers and threaten wildlife with extinction, a new global warming report warns.")

Sen. John Kerry, "We Can't Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change" (31 August 2009) ("Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window -- if even that -- before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.")

Kristin Ohlson, "Earth on Fire," Discover Magazine (July/August 2010), pp 60-65.

"Climate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn" (c. 11 July 2010)

John Vidal, "Last Month Was the Hottest June Recorded Worldwide, Figures Show: US government climate data suggests 2010 on course to be warmest year since records began" (The Guardian/UK, 16 July 2010) ("Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken. . . . 2010 is now on course to be the warmest year since records began in 1880. The trend to a warmer world is now incontrovertible. According to NOAA, June was the 304th consecutive month with a combined global land and surface temperature above the 20th-century average. The last month with below-average temperatures was February 1985. Each of the 10 warmest average global temperatures recorded since 1880 have occurred in the last 15 years with the previous warmest first half of a year in 1998. . . . 'These are clear signs of a rapidly warming world and exactly what the climate models have predicted.'")

Climatologist Heidi Cullen, The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet (Harper, 2010) (predicts more frequent and more violent storms, more hot spells, cold spells, droughts, famines, and huge waves of desperate refugees)

Brad Johnson, "How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse" (ThinkProgress, Sunday, 28 August 2011) ("As the U.S. government report 'Global Climate Change Impacts in the US' summarized in 2009, warming of the oceans is causing Atlantic hurricanes to become more intense and dangerous.")

Bill McKibben, "Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call About Climate Change?" (Monday, 29 August 2011) ("I wrote the first book [The End of Nature (1989)] about climate change 22 years ago this year. And I should begin by saying, there’s very little satisfaction in saying, 'I told you so.' We knew then enough to predict exactly what was going to happen. And climatologists, 22 years ago, were saying, this is what to look forward to. The basic physical property here is that warm air holds more water vapor than cold. You can get stronger storms. The atmosphere is about four percent wetter than it was 40 years ago. That’s an enormous change in a basic physical parameter. It loads the dice for both drought, as you’re getting increased evaporation, and deluge and downpour and flood.")

"Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking at 'Unprecedented' Levels" (Thursday, 24 November 2011)   ("The recent loss of sea ice in the Arctic is greater than any natural variation in the past 1½ millennia, a Canadian study shows. . . . According to the leading science journal Nature, Arctic sea ice is disappearing on a pace and magnitude unlike anything the Earth has experienced in the past 1,450 years." "The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented," said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper . . . What makes recent sea ice declines unique is that they have been driven by multiple factors that never all coincided in historical periods of major sea ice loss, said Christophe Kinnard, lead author of the new report.")

"Massive swathes of rainforest threatened by Brazilian bill" (Saturday, 26 November 2011)   ("A bill before the Brazilian senate could see millions of acres of forest, equal in size to Germany, Italy and Austria combined, destroyed forever if it is approved. Conservationists are warning that proposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code will exacerbate the problem of deforestation in the Amazon and beyond. . . . the new legislation could see 175 million acres of forest an area roughly equivalent to Germany, Italy and Austria combined cleared or not restored following illegal deforestation. . . . . Deforestation has long been a critical issue for Brazil, which is home to the ecologically fragile Amazon Rainforest, a major rainforest that produces a sixth of the world's oxygen supply")

"Goodbye, Fish: Rising CO2 Direct Threat to Sea Life Study: Rising CO2 affecting brains, central nervous systems of sea fish" (Monday, 16 January 2012) (''We've now established it isn't simply the acidification of the oceans that is causing disruption, as is the case with shellfish and plankton with chalky skeletons. But the CO2 itself is damaging the fishes' central nervous systems.") (See Revelation 8:8-9, death of one-third the sea creatures, and thereafter, Revelation 16:3, all of them. Note, for example, radioactivity being found in fish, "Radioactive fish from Fukushima found near California" (29 May 2012), some 6,000 miles away.

"Scientists: Arctic Melting Leading to Europe's Freeze: Is Climate Change Bringing the Arctic to Europe?" (5 February 2012) ("Studies by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research have confirmed a link between the loss of Arctic sea ice and the development of high-pressure zones in the polar region, which influence wind patterns at lower latitudes further south. Scientists found that as the cap of sea ice is removed from the ocean, huge amounts of heat are released from the sea into the colder air above, causing the air to rise. Rising air destabilises the atmosphere and alters the difference in air pressure between the Arctic and more southerly regions, changing wind patterns.")

"Documents Reveal Plans, Funders and Goals of 'Climate Denial' Machine" (Wednesday, 15 February 2012) (Climate change deniers include Altria (parent company of Philip Morris), RJR Tobacco . . .).

          Smoking leads to alcoholism, drug abuse, mental disorder. All of these impair judgement, including management of resources for the future.

          Cigarettes contain toxic chemicals. Deaths are "natural and probable consequences." Pursuant to standard lawbook definitions, nonsmokers' involuntary foreseeable deaths constitute murder. The high number of deaths is a "holocaust" according to the Royal Society of Physicians' 1971 criteria, and is part of the total genocide problem.

         In 1897, Tennessee passed what was in essence a 'deforestation prevention act,' in the form of a law banning manufacture and sale of deleterious and adulterated cigarettes. The tobacco lobby sued to have the Tennessee law struck down as supposedly unconstitutional. However, the courts upheld the law—all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

         Soon Michigan followed Tennessee's lead. In 1909, during the administration of three-term activist Governor Fred Warner, the Michigan legislature passed a law forbidding manufacture, giveaway, and sale of cigarettes. That law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, serving as a deforestation prevention act, bans

"any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ."

          Of course, all cigarettes contain deleterious items. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress: a Report of the Surgeon General, Publication CDC 89-8411, Table 7, pp 86-87 (1989), lists examples of deleterious ingredients including but not limited to:

         What this site is asking is your help in (a) getting the, in essence, deforestation prevention law enforced, and (b) getting all other governments to pass the same law in their areas. Please help us save forests, by preventing the tobacco-related portion of deforestation.

         To fight this problem, here are four sample letters. "A" is to Governor Jennifer Granholm Engler asking her to have the State Police enforce the Michigan law. "B" is to Attorney General Mike Cox asking him to enforce the law. Each has the authority to help. As both the Governor and Attorney General are lawyers, the letters are written in "legalese." Sample letter "C" is to the State Police Director asking for enforcement. Sample letter "D" is different, and is for you to send where the government still ignores the tobacco-deforestation link. It is to be sent to the President, Congress, other Governors, and state legislators.

Honorable Jennifer Granholm
Governor, State of Michigan
P. O. Box 30013
Lansing MI 48909-7513

Dear Governor Granholm:

         This is a request that you assign the Michigan State Police to enforce the deforestation prevention law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216.

           "Clearing forests for tobacco production causes soil erosion and related ecological damage, and is responsible for deforestation in Brazil and in Africa," according to WFPHA Position Paper No. 98-1, adopted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations General Assembly, at its 32nd Annual Meeting 11 May 1998, citing D. Yach, Tobacco in Africa, World Health Forum, Vol. 17, 1996, and the Forum on Global Tobacco Control Policies - Background, San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition.

            A 24 May 1999 British Medical Journal Tobacco Control Press Release reports that "An estimated 200,000 hectares of forest and woodland are removed by tobacco farming every year."

          The cigarette control law, in essence a deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents the tobacco aspect of deforestation.

         The deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ." Please assign the Michigan State Police to enforce it, and aid county sheriffs and local police departments to do likewise.

         All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers), not on unwary consumers, often children.

         State Police enforcement action is a normal action that they do in other state-wide law violation situations. There are precedents as well. Austin v State, 101 Tenn 563; 48 SW 305; 70 Am St Rep 703 (1898) aff'd 179 US 343 (1898); Shimp v N J Bell Tele Co, 145 N J Super 516; 368 A2d 408 (1976); Commonwealth v Hughes, 468 Pa 502; 364 A2d 306 (1976); and Smith v Western Elec Co, 643 SW2d 10, 13 (Mo App, 1982).

         As a matter of law, all persons suffering from this deleterious and adulterated product need enforcement to occur. Please assign the State Police to protect us all, by enforcing the deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. Please have them halt the rampant violations, and interdict deleterious and adulterated cigarettes.

Respectfully,

Honorable Mike Cox
Attorney General, State of Michigan
P. O. Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909

Dear Attorney General Cox:

         This is a request that you take "cease and desist" action to stop violations of the deforestation prevention law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216.

           "Clearing forests for tobacco production causes soil erosion and related ecological damage, and is responsible for deforestation in Brazil and in Africa," according to WFPHA Position Paper No. 98-1, adopted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations General Assembly, at its 32nd Annual Meeting 11 May 1998, citing D. Yach, Tobacco in Africa, World Health Forum, Vol. 17, 1996, and the Forum on Global Tobacco Control Policies - Background, San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition.

            A 24 May 1999 British Medical Journal Tobacco Control Press Release reports that "An estimated 200,000 hectares of forest and woodland are removed by tobacco farming every year."

          The cigarette control law, in essence a deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents the tobacco aspect of deforestation.

         The deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ." "Cease and desist" action is an action you take in other state-wide law violation cases.

         All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers), not on unwary consumers, often children.

         "Cease and desist" action is a normal action that you do in other state-wide law violation situations. There are precedents, for example, Austin v State, 101 Tenn 563; 48 SW 305; 70 Am St Rep 703 (1898) aff'd 179 US 343 (1898); Shimp v N J Bell Tele Co, 145 N J Super 516; 368 A2d 408 (1976); Commonwealth v Hughes, 468 Pa 502; 364 A2d 306 (1976); and Smith v Western Elec Co, 643 SW2d 10, 13 (Mo App, 1982).

Respectfully,

Col. Peter C. Munoz, Director
Department of State Police
714 South Harrison Road
East Lansing MI 48823

Dear Col. Munoz:

           "Clearing forests for tobacco production causes soil erosion and related ecological damage, and is responsible for deforestation in Brazil and in Africa," according to WFPHA Position Paper No. 98-1, adopted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations General Assembly, at its 32nd Annual Meeting 11 May 1998, citing D. Yach, Tobacco in Africa, World Health Forum, Vol. 17, 1996, and the Forum on Global Tobacco Control Policies - Background, San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition.

            A 24 May 1999 British Medical Journal Tobacco Control Press Release reports that "An estimated 200,000 hectares of forest and woodland are removed by tobacco farming every year."

          The cigarette control law, in essence a deforestation prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents the tobacco aspect of deforestation.

         The law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ." Please work with prosecutors, assign officers to enforce the law, and aid county sheriffs and local police departments to do likewise.

         All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers), not on unwary consumers, often children.

         State Police enforcement action is a normal action that officers do in other state-wide law violation situations. There are precedents as well. Austin v State, 101 Tenn 563; 48 SW 305; 70 Am St Rep 703 (1898) aff'd 179 US 343 (1898); Shimp v N J Bell Tele Co, 145 N J Super 516; 368 A2d 408 (1976); Commonwealth v Hughes, 468 Pa 502; 364 A2d 306 (1976); and Smith v Western Elec Co, 643 SW2d 10, 13 (Mo App, 1982).

         As a matter of law, all persons suffering from this deleterious and adulterated product need enforcement to occur. Please assign officers to protect us all, by enforcing the cigarette control law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. Please have them halt the rampant violations, and interdict deleterious and adulterated cigarettes.

Respectfully,

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         This is a request that you take action to get a law passed that will serve as a deforestation prevention law. Michigan already has such a law. It is law number MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. It has an effect of dealing with the tobacco link to deforestation.

           "Clearing forests for tobacco production causes soil erosion and related ecological damage, and is responsible for deforestation in Brazil and in Africa," according to WFPHA Position Paper No. 98-1, adopted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations General Assembly, at its 32nd Annual Meeting 11 May 1998, citing D. Yach, Tobacco in Africa, World Health Forum, Vol. 17, 1996, and the Forum on Global Tobacco Control Policies - Background, San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition.

            A 24 May 1999 British Medical Journal Tobacco Control Press Release reports that "An estimated 200,000 hectares of forest and woodland are removed by tobacco farming every year."

         The Michigan cigarette control law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, in essence, a deforestation prevention act, serves to preclude that aspect of deforestation linked to tobacco.

         Please get a copy of that law, which in essence forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ."

         All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. Michigan's well-written law act deals with a cause of deforestation (not to mention disease and death). Michigan's act puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers who know its harmful effects), not on unwary consumers, often children.

         As a matter of protecting us all, we all need you to take action to get a tobacco-related deforestation prevention act adopted. Please take action to copy the Michigan law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, so all of us can benefit from its wise prevention-oriented approach.

Respectfully,

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