Contrary to popular opinion, we are not helpless
Contrary to popular opinion we are not helpless — we have many courses of action. First, become very familiar with the website material, its background, and its Solution Ideas (read entire Home page and NEWS). Then become a member — see the Contact & Support tab. We’re going to need some financial support to start, continue, and maintain this site and work.
Sign up for our mailing list and become a founding member of UCAN. A $25 minimum donation keeps this campaign alive.
Donate & Join →Hand-written mailed envelopes (contents can be typed) are the most likely to reach a person. Emails may get through to NGOs but usually don’t in today’s spam world. Faxes can also be a good means. Check postage at the post office for foreign countries (stamps are $1.80 to almost all foreign countries-check with web).
Letters to the Editor are good for informing people of our perilous situation and drawing them to the website. Guest Opinions can be longer. Opportunities for both are frequent these days. Adjust the title and lead-in as appropriate. In both cases check your paper’s guidelines online.
Download the letter templates, fill in your details, and send. To avoid duplicates, claim your contacts in the live tracker before writing (not set up yet-just write, there’s so many…).
Contact by email, phone, actual letter, or fax — in order of importance. Until we get more sophisticated tracking software, it’s a shotgun approach — just write people and log later.
SIMPLEST IS TO EMAIL: to get addresses, type into a search engine: email for ___name___ , ____institution_______ by copying and pasting name, then institution. Generally AI seems to have this information, then address your email to them using your email address. Please personalize your email as my templates tend to be business like. Attach above documents which you have downloaded. I like to actually copy and paste Disturbing Arctic Methane Facts on the email itself, attaching it if they wish to download it (sometimes I have to copy and paste the graph separately). If you get serious, set up a file in your computer with various files you are using and your own template email. If you get a reply, please forward to us.
① CMIP — Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (the climate modelers)
Copy and paste the CMIP profile, then search their name and institution to find email and address as above.
wcrp-cmip.org/people
After writing, cc: info@ucan.ngo we will log your work.
② IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (195 member countries) The researchers
ipcc.ch contact list — Bureau members
③ COP Delegates — 11,991 participants organized by country
unfccc.int delegate list then click on open, then on excel spreadsheet- save for future reference
Also worth targeting: the International Youth Climate Delegate Program (IYCDP) — the age group most seriously affected.
Also consider: your congressman, local elected officials, and climate science meetings. Typically there’s an assistant acting as gatekeeper — it depends on them to forward the email.
After sending a letter, email, or fax — fill this out so we can track who’s been contacted and who hasn’t. Find the Line # in the CMIP Outreach Tracker spreadsheet above.
⬇ Download CMIP Outreach Tracker (Excel)
This is a shared live spreadsheet. Before writing to someone on the list, find their row and enter your initials and today’s date in the tracking columns — that claims them so nobody duplicates your work. Then write your letter and update the row when done.
Open Live Tracker → This for CMIP people, Note: people already contacted come up in blue