DiCaprio support Climate Change Action

Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and serious environmentalist, is among a growing number of US celebrities and politicians, who openly wants the USA to act on climate change and who believe that George Bush is wrong trying to avoid signing up to binding emission targets.

The Mayor of Seattle, Greg Nickels, has seen Seattle snowfall dramatically reduced over the last 50 years. He believe that this is caused by global warming and that this is having an impact on his city because Seattle needs the snow for drinking water and hydro-generated electrical power.

Mr. Nickels has therefore asked other Mayors to support the Kyoto protocol, despite the clear resistance from the Bush administration. So far 191 US Mayors have signed up to a deal that will see the participating cities, including 25 of America's 50 biggest cities, try to reduce emissions by 7% from 1990 levels.

Further evidence of the shift in public opinion, away from the Bush policy on climate change, is coming from California, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting legislation in place that will see industries report on CO2 emissions and investment in renewable energy.