MAY SURGE COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARPER MAJORITY AND LIBERAL MINORITY

This release just went out from 3 of Canada's most senior climate change scientists.

You can click here to download a comprehensive spreadsheet (PDF)of all the ridings where the Green vote can make a difference.

VICTORIA – Three senior Canadian members of the 2007 Nobel Prize
winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are calling
on Elizabeth May to lead Greens to make the difference in more than 50
close ridings where the Conservatives are set to win with a fraction
of the expected Green Party vote. The leading Canadian climate
scientists making the call are Dr. Andrew Weaver from the University
of Victoria, Dr. William Peltier from the University of Toronto and
Dr. John Stone from Carleton University.

Riding projections on VoteForEnvironment.ca and seat models from
various polling companies show that in the so-called 519 and 905
regions, and across southern BC the Green Party vote is many times
greater than the Conservative margin of victory.

"We face a critical moment," said Dr. Andrew Weaver, a lead author of
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning IPCC report.

"It looks like the unprecedented desire to vote for the environment
could result in a terrible three way split of environmental voters in
key ridings. Elizabeth May and her appeal have an extraordinary
opportunity to make the change the Green movement wants to see in our
government. Ms. May and the Greens alone can help make the difference
between the Harper majority that the climate scientists fear and a
Liberal minority under which great progress can be made to fight
climate change."

Doctors Weaver, Peltier and Stone were part of the group of 124
prominent climate scientists who called for strategic voting to defeat
the Conservative government.

VoteForEnvironment.ca uses the most recent polling and the 2006
election results at the riding level to mathematically estimate
results in each riding. The tool uses the same method pollsters use to
make seat projections. It is available so citizens can decode what the
various polls mean in their voting choice and if their vote could help
make the difference to stop a Conservative victory in their riding.

"Look at Oakville," said Dr. William Peltier from the University of Toronto.

"The Conservative in Oakville is set to win by about 1200 votes. In
that riding May and the Green party will probably draw well over 7000
votes. If even a portion of those Greens act it will make the
difference. There are dozens of ridings like Oakville. It looks today
like Conservatives will squeak out a win over NDP and Liberal
candidates in key ridings where the Greens under May are so strong
that, if they used their votes to make change, it would happen."

"Right now if May were to act to lead the growing Green force she has
inspired, she could change the result of this election," said Dr. John
Stone from Carleton University.

"I think changing the government by acting in a narrow band of ridings
is more important to environmental voters than the $1.83 parties get
per vote. May should make clear that she believes the government needs
to change and the election is in the hands of green voters in key
ridings."

Visit VoteForEnvironment.ca to download a spreadsheet of all the
ridings where the Green vote can make the difference.

Media Contacts:
Dr. William Peltier, 647-405-0829
Dr. John Stone, 613-862-3393
Dr. Andrew Weaver, 250-888-7591