The Summit Daily News recently ran a front page, five article spread on climate change and The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. The online version combines all five articles: The Heat is On. Summit Daily News, July 31, 2005. "Stephen Saunders has been busy, traveling around the state and meeting with local governments and other entities to spread awareness and garner support for the RMCO, and the message is fairly straightforward....

"The aim, Saunders said, is to limit human-caused temperature gains to about 2.5 degrees Celsius to keep changes within acceptable levels.

"'The big, big question is, when? The sooner we take action, the easier it will be,' he said....

"'We should be leading the way. We have much at stake. I have a sense of optimism that Colorado can and will become a leader. In this region, we have abundant clean energy sources, and a concentration of technical and scientific resources, as well as an educated and enlightened population. We can become a net exporter of renewable energy, to the benefit of our economy.'"

City Hatches Global Warming Initiative. Aspen Times, March 17, 2005. "Comparing Aspen's fragile climate to a canary in a miner's cage, the city unveiled a multipronged approach Wednesday to reducing its contribution to global warming....

"The initiative should give residents who feel there is little they can do personally to rein in global warming a way to make a difference, City Councilwoman Rachel Richards said.

"Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, offered this observation: 'The state of Colorado puts out more emissions from fossil fuels than 174 other nations do.'"

Warming West Bodes Ill for Skiing. Aspen Times, March 2, 2005. "Stephen Saunders is president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a nonprofit environmental group in Denver. He has studied government charts that detail the Western Slope's temperature patterns dating to 1895. So what has he found?

"'The West is warming, Aspen is warming,' Saunders said. 'The clear scientific consensus worldwide is that the Earth's climate is warming, and that most of the cause for that in the last 50 years or so is what people are doing in terms of putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.'"

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