Chuck Tomaselli

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Climate Restoration Ambassador to Rotary

Westmoreland, New York, USA

My Stand in Life is to be an Expression of Joy in my Family, Community, and out into the World.

My goal as a Rotarian is to have Rotary take on as its next major initiative the Restoration of the Environment.

I am a Person of Faith and a practicing Christian

My Family: Wife – Nancy Robinson, 55 years, Son – Jason, Grandsons – Emerson & Lachlan, Daughter-in-Law – Kelly, Sister -Toni Kay.

My Passions: Family, Architecture, Environment, Rotary, Singing, Service & Community

The quote I look to live my life by:

“This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

My roles with Rotary:

District 7150

Assistant Governor (2012-2013)
District ESRAG Task Force Founder/Stewart Leader (2019- )
District 7150 ESRAG Regional Chapter Contact Person (2020- )
Environment Satellite Club of New Hartford, Champion/Founder (2022- )
District 7150 Environment Service Committee Chairperson (2023 – )
CNY Rotary Environment Team Co-Founder /Stewart Leader (2023 – )
Eastern North America ESRAG Chairperson-Elect (2023 – )

New Hartford Rotary Club

Club President (2008-2009)
Member (1990 – Present)
Multiple Term Board Member

Dear Rotarians & Environment Friends!

This is my personal invitation: let’s commit together to restore the climate by 2050.

Everyone wants to restore a proven safe climate for our children and our grandchildren – one that humans have actually survived long-term. Nature has done it and we can do it too if we follow her example and commit to it.

Rotarians are committed to “Service Above Self”. Let’s all stand together and be a service to future generations and the nature we depend on.

Now is the time, this is the place and you make the difference.

My goal, as the Climate Restoration Ambassador to Rotary, is for Rotary International to take on Climate Restoration as its next Global Cause, aiming to see atmospheric CO2 levels go down by 2030 at a rate that leads to the Climate Restored by 2050.

I am calling on Rotarians, Rotary Clubs, Rotary Districts, and all Friends of the Environment to register your commitment to restore a safe climate for future generations.

Individuals and organizations can Endorse the Rotary Climate Restoration Resolution and join with the Climate Restoration Alliance to make Climate Restoration an Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Warmest regards,
Chuck Tomaselli.

Rotary Climate Restoration Resolution

What is Climate Restoration?

Published here with permission from the Foundation for Climate Restoration.

Everyone wants to restore a safe climate — one that humans have actually survived long-term. In this “pre-industrial” climate, which allowed us to develop agriculture and thriving civilizations, atmospheric CO2 never rose above 300 parts per million (ppm). Today, CO2 levels are 420 ppm. Yet now we know how to bring CO2 back down to pre-industrial levels—and could do so by 2050.

Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) appears to be the fastest, safest and most effective climate restoration solution although it was controversial for a time. OIF restores fisheries and other marine life while also reducing CO2 levels at the scale needed to restore the climate. It requires little or no public funding: instead, the process produces revenue and taxes from revived fisheries.

Restoring the climate requires removing and storing a trillion tons of legacy CO2 by 2050. Nature has stored 99 percent of all the CO2 on earth in the form of limestone, made of calcium and CO2 by shellfish and other marine organisms.1 Nearly half carbon dioxide by weight, limestone is an ideal, permanent storage system for this greenhouse gas.

Restoring our climate will require pulling a trillion tons of legacy carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2050. Farming seaweed, mainly fast-growing kelp and sargassum, can help achieve climate restoration.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that causes about 1/3 of today’s global warming. Using Enhanced Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (EAMO), we can accelerate these processes and reduce atmospheric methane to pre-industrial levels. This could rewind warming back to 2002 levels by 2050 and protect humanity from catastrophic levels of melting permafrost.

More and more people are realizing: Even if we reach net zero by 2050, or stay “well under” 2°C of warming, our survival will still be in serious doubt. That’s because there are already a trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. This “legacy” CO2, emitted over the last 200 years, will continue to wreak havoc in our world—whether or not we decrease future emissions to near-zero.

I have chosen to endorse the Rotary District 7150 Climate Restoration Resolution thereby joining with the Climate Restoration Alliance in making Climate Restoration be an “Idea Whose Time Has Come”

Individuals: Please fill the form below.

Organizations: Please follow these steps:

Create a copy of the Climate Restoration Resolution Template.
Edit and adapt it to your organization’s language and mission.
Sign it, scan it, and upload the file using this form, by uploading the signed resolution you are giving us permission to post your organization name, logo, and resolution on our website.

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I have chosen to endorse the Rotary District 7150 Climate Restoration Resolution thereby joining with the Climate Restoration Alliance in making Climate Restoration be an “Idea Whose Time Has Come”.

I am a Rotarian speaking only for myself. I am a Friend of the Environment speaking only for myself. I am authorized by my organization to submit the signed resolution. I am authorized by my organization to submit the signed resolution, but would like more info.

The Climate Restoration Alliance

Dear Rotarians & Environment Friends!

What is Climate Restoration?

I have chosen to endorse the Rotary District 7150 Climate Restoration Resolution thereby joining with the Climate Restoration Alliance in making Climate Restoration be an “Idea Whose Time Has Come”

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