Greenpeace activists have started construction on a  replica of Noah's Ark,  8,200 feet above sea level, in one of the most dramatic ever pleas to world leaders to take far-reaching and urgent action to avoid catastrophic global warming.  Many people believe that Mount Ararat is the place where Noah's Ark landed after the floods.

Building the message

The 32ft x 13ft x 13ft wooden ship, being constructed by Greenpeace volunteers, will send a strong message to leaders of all nations that we must act now to tackle global warming and the impending climate change crisis.  A caravan of 40 horses have hauled the prefabricated wooden sections up Mount Ararat, where work has now begun on constructing supports as well as the keel and ribs of the boat. Over the next 2 weeks, a team of 20 German and Turkish carpenters will complete the construction of the boat, which will be turned over to the public in an official ceremony on  May 31, 2007. A day before the ceremony, Greenpeace activists will climb the almost 17,000 ft  summit of Mount Ararat and call on the leaders of all nations to make climate protection a reality.

Building towards a solution

Greenpeace recently launched the Energy [R]evolution, a blueprint for avoiding dangerous climate change and keeping global warming to under two degrees. The Energy [R]evolution sets out a detailed plan up to 2050 showing how to make reductions in greenhouse gases - which IPCC prescribes can be achieved using current renewable energy technology and energy efficiency measures - without harming economic growth and taking into account population increases.

Climate change could mean a future with huge coastal flooding, drought, extreme destructive weather events and massive increases in disease and displacement of hundreds of million of people. That's why millions of people around the world are already mobilizing.  They're lobbying politicians, changing what they buy and making smart energy choices. 

After years of inaction by the Bush Administration, Congress has finally taken matters into their own hands with a science-based, long-term solution to global warming.