Forty-eight hours ago the largest climate change rally in U.S. history took place in Washington D.C., where protesters called for the White House to prevent the construction of the XL Keystone Pipeline.
Today, approximately three dozen student activists continued the momentum at a press conference in front of the Marshall Center on the USF campus before marching to Sen. Marco Rubio's local district office to urge him to support climate change legislation.
"As temperatures rise, the risk to cities like Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater is tremendous of superstorms like Hurricane Sandy hitting us, and destroying what we've worked so hard to build," said Frank Jackalone, Sierra Club Florida staff director.
Jackalone called on President Obama to address the pollution that is "ravaging" the country. He said without any action, there will be more forest fires, flooding seas, and the possibility of losing the state's beaches. He also blasted Rubio for saying "We can't change the weather" during his State of the Union rebuttal.
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2013.