Reply #5: Senators Attest to Alaska Climate Change

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My Comment: So does that mean we get a sane energy policy, mass transportation program to cut greenhouse gasses and reduction in military spending(largest single contributor to greenhouse gasses)?

Senators Attest to Alaska Climate Change

Thursday August 18, 2005 3:46 AM

By DAN JOLING

Associated Press Writer

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anyone doubting the effects of human activity on global climate change should talk to the people it affects in Alaska and the Yukon, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.

Fresh from a trip to Barrow, America's northernmost city, McCain said anecdotes from Alaskans and residents of the Yukon Territory confirm scientific evidence of global warming.

``We are convinced that the overwhelming scientific evidence indicated that climate change is taking place and human activities play a very large role,'' McCain said.

McCain, accompanied by Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., spoke to villagers in Canada whose spruce trees are being attacked by the northward spread of spruce beetles. On Alaska's northern coast, they met Native Alaskans dealing with melting permafrost and coastal erosion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5217547,00.html