Colorado to tackle global warming
Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 24, 2006 at midnight
A statewide action plan to reduce and deal with future emissions of global-warming pollutants was launched this morning.
The so-called Colorado Climate Project will work to reduce the state's contributions and vulnerability to climate change, said Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.
"We have a lot at stake, and what we do here matters," Saunders said after a 10 a.m. news conference in the administration building of Denver Water, which is the state's largest water provider.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Lakewood Mayor Steve Burkholder and Al Yates, former president of Colorado State University, all of whom attended the news conference, are among six project directors who will appoint a blue ribbon panel in charge of developing an action plan and recommendations in about 12 to 14 months.
"All too often, people turn away from the seeming complexity and distance of global warming -- climate changes, melting of the icecaps, rising oceans," Yates said. "Such things just seem too big, too daunting to contemplate or comprehend. And so we ignore them, deny their existence. And, as my colleagues have argued, we do so at our peril. But ... we can solve this problem. And we must."
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