Colorado Independent » Panelists at McCain-Udall [climate scam] hearing detail state’s [allegedly] grim climate future

Schimel added that although large amounts of money have been put into forecasting climate change trends, few resources have been provided to predict specific outcomes. He recommended that more money be devoted to this cause. He also suggested that information management among researchers and park planners and foresters was an essential need not presently being met.

Saunders called for Udall, a Democrat, and McCain, a Republican, to support a National Park Service Climate Change office that would serve as a central hub for information collection. He commented that the so-called cap-and-trade legislation currently under discussion in the U.S. House that has prohibited the park from using the $10 million allotted to the National Park Service for climate change research to go to establishing such a center.

McCain said establishing such a center seemed reasonable.

Alice Madden, climate coordinator for Gov. Bill Ritter’s office, said she would prefer to see policies passed in the short term that would effect long-term results.

Opposition to US climate change legislation gathers pace

According to API, there has been an "overwhelming turnout" at the rallies so far, with representation from a variety of industries. It said 3,500 people attended the initial event in Houston, with subsequent rally attendance ranging from approximately 250 people in Roswell, New Mexico, to 700 attendees in Lima, Ohio and 1,200 individuals in Farmington, New Mexico.