«It's a grave crisis, and we need to do something real fast,»
said petition signer Jeff Severinghaus, a geosciences professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. «I think the stakes are way, way too high to be playing around.»
Not exact matches
One
signer is quoted on the
petition as
saying, «I am so opposed to this move that I will most definitely pull my daughter from the school if they do move to Olympic or if any other decision like this is made without parent input or timely warning.»
«I think the
petition has spread simply through passion, anger, frustration, and the love my
petition signers have for New York and its rich history,» Mann
said.
In response, the 2011 session of the legislature deleted the language on the
petition saying the
signers are members, and moved the
petition deadline from March to April.
The assemblyman
said the
petition has more than 1,000
signers and had the best response of any
petition on the Assembly website, which includes signatures urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reinstitute the so - called «millionaire's tax.»
As to the
petition signers, «we agree with your goal, we share your belief that animal testing should be phased out,» budget commissioner Kristalina Georgieva
said after a meeting of the College of Commissioners in Brussels yesterday.
«This ballot question actually takes a fairly tempered approach to increasing access in a gradual process, year by year, with retention of the important oversight of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,»
said Christopher Anderson, a former chairman of the state Board of Education and one of the
petition's
signers.
Alex Flores, Compton's assistant superintendent of human resources,
said ID was requested to ensure that the parent and the
petition signer were the same.
In its April 22, 1998, article, the Times reported, «Of the 15,000
signers of the
petition [at the time], Dr. Robinson
said, about 2,100 were physicists, geophysicists, climatologists and meteorologists, «and of those the greatest number are physicists.»»
The unprecedented
petition includes scientists from more than 25 countries and shows that «the climate science community is essentially fed up,»
said signer Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in Canada.