Questions for Obama from 350.org

Obama's MIT speech today on clean energy is coinciding with tomorrow's International Day of Climate Action, billed as the largest day of political action in the world about climate.

Ad taken out by 350.org in MIT student newspaper

Some 4,000 events will be taken place in over 175 nations to pressure world leaders to create policies to lower and then stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million - the amount many scientists say is safe to have without causing widespread climate disruption. World leaders will be meeting in Copenhagen in December in hopes of hammering out a new treaty to lower the world's emission, which already hover around 390 parts per million.

I'll be posting an advance about some of the events in a bit, but at MIT, 350.org took out a full page ad in the paper with three questions for Obama.

I know the graphic is hard to read. So here are the questions:
1. Tomorrow will see the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history: 4,200 rallies in 171 nations, including 1,800 across your own country, all with the same theme: the most important number in the world is 350, as in parts per million CO2 What can you say to give those people hope that the world’s leaders will actually pay attention?

2.When he was vice-president, Al Gore said of climate: “The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible.” Since that still seems true, what’s your plan of attack for really educating Americans about the dangers that global warming poses?

3. Your administration has talked about the need to limit temperature increases to two degrees celsius and CO2 concentrations to 450 ppm.
Given that 1 degree, and 390 ppm, has been enough to melt the Arctic, destroy the great pine forests of the west, and spread mosquito-borne disease, don’t we need more aggressive targets?