When Cerma Marine CEO Greg De Smet and executive vice president Christopher Murray discovered that ocean-going vessels account for 30 percent of the world’s harmful emissions,
they knew they had to do something.

CERMA with STM-3™reduces emissions in any engine of greenhouse gases by 50 to 100 percent. CERMA with STM-3™ also increases engines’ fuel efficiency by 5 to 20 percent. De Smet and Murray knew they had a service that could revolutionize the shipping industry.

Going green while saving green. It is the ideal philosophy for owners of fleets and vessels.
It is time to fight global warming through sound business.

So how bad is global warming?

The jury is in. Scientists agree that global warming is caused by humans. The culprit? Our insistence on creating harmful greenhouse gases, largely through our use of fossil fuel, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The world is listening. Some 182 countries to date have signed the Kyoto Protocol, an international pact to reduce greenhouses gas emissions. Other nations, like the United States, are taking independent steps to regulate the pollution coughed out by vehicles and industry.

How can you help? Service your fleet with CERMA with STM3™ and you will make your engines more clean and efficient than you ever thought possible. Here’s how it works:

You service your vessel(s) with a one-time application of CERMA with STM3™, reducing harmful emissions by 50 to 100 percent. You tell a friend, who treats their fleet with CERMA with STM3™. They tell a friend. That’s how revolutions start. That’s how change happens.

It’s time for the shipping industry to stop being a villain in the global warming drama. It’s time to embrace solutions.

Far from gradual, global warming is wreaking havoc. From humans to animals to polar ice caps, the Earth is feeling the heat. Take the 20 hottest years on record and you’ll find 19 of them happened in the 1980s or later. Droughts are parching the earth, leading to increased wildfires.

Storms and floods are also on the upswing. NASA scientists say violent thunderstorms and tornadoes will continue to increase as the planet warms. The warming effect may be already adding punch to hurricanes. In recent years, higher temperatures have fueled more intense rainstorms throughout the United States, according to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

Animals, especially those inhabiting arctic areas, are already displaying heart-wrenching evidence of the effects of global warming. Polar bears are being stranded on melting ice. Some have even been found drowned. This majestic species has declined in number by close to a quarter in the last two decades. The remaining polar bears are getting thinner, casualties of early ice melts and a shortened seal-hunting season.

Polar bears are not the only animals at risk. With warmer water, Alaskan salmon are being wracked by bacteria and parasites. Penguins, seals and caribou are also dwindling.

It’s not just cold-weather species that are threatened. Increased temperatures have already claimed two victims: South America’s golden toad and harlequin frog are now extinct. According to a major international study, global warming may push a quarter of land animals and plants to near-extinction by 2050.

Humans are not immune to the effects of global warming. Temperature creep poses myriad risks to Homo sapiens, from heat and drought-related crop failure to natural disasters, from heat-induced deaths to skin cancer.

Close to the tipping point, mankind is at a crossroads. Every crossroads offers an opportunity to choose. It is time for all of us to choose to fight global warming.

Despite the damage of global warming, there is a current of optimism among many scientists and environmentalists.

“The human brain is already beginning to come up with ways that we can do things better,” says renowned primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall.

Doing things better means doing things green. It’s time for us to embrace new technologies designed to make our carbon footprint lighter. It’s time for CERMA with STM3™.

When we think of harmful emissions, we tend to think of industrial smokestacks belching tons of black smoke, and highways jammed with cars. In 2005 there were, in fact, 247,421,120 registered passenger vehicles in the US alone, according to the Department of Transportation.

There is another, unexpected, source dirtying our air and heating our atmosphere at record levels: the shipping industry. From oil tankers to cruise ships, from cargo to container vessels, ocean-going vessels account for 30 percent of the world’s harmful emissions. Nitrogen oxide. Hydrocarbon. Sulfur dioxide. Methane. We’re talking toxic stuff. Combine all the varieties of land transportation and these vessels still emit more sulfur dioxide, says the International Council on Clean Transportation. Looking to the skies, your fleet is part of an industry whose carbon footprint is double that of the aviation industry.

Because they can take so much weight, vessels are incredibly cost-effective. Ocean-going vessels carry some six billion tons of freight each year, collectively covering 3.7 million miles. In 2001, vessels used 280 million tons of fuel.

How high are the stakes?

Global warming is ravaging the planet. Ocean levels are rising twice as fast today compared to 150 years ago. Some scientists predict a rise of as much as 20 feet by the end of the century.

Global warming is hitting places like the North and South poles particularly hard. In Greenland, glaciers are melting twice as fast as they did in 1996. Throughout the Arctic and Antarctic, state-sized icebergs are crumbling into the sea.

Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, has pronounced a state of emergency, predicting that if things continue unchecked, "There will be no polar ice by 2060. . ."