When he gets bigger ideas and decides to begin his own league, however, the cheering gets a little less unanimous. Ask Snoop Dogg about this. She said the evidence in Alaska represented the "canary in the mine shaft of global warming crying out to us to pay attention".. Mr Graham, a Republican, said he had been moved by what he had seen. "Climate change is different when you come here, because you see the faces of people experiencing it.
If you go to the people and listen to their stories and walk away with any doubt that something's going on, you're not listening." Mrs Collins, a Republican, was even more convinced. Mr McCain - with Senator Joe Lieberman - is behind proposed legislation that would require power-generating companies to reduce carbon emissions to their 2000 levels. They also saw shrinking glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park. Mr McCain, Mrs Clinton and Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine, also went to Barrow, the northernmost city in the US There, they spoke to scientists and Inupiaq Inuit. The woman said she had been fishing there all her life but now fish have strange bumps on them. "It's heartbreaking to see the devastation," Mrs Clinton said.
They called on world leaders to recognise "that delayed action will increase the risk of adverse environmental effects and will likely incur a greater cost". Mrs Clinton, who must first win her re-election to the US senate next year if she is to enter the 2008 White House race, said at the press conference that she had spoken to scientists as well as native Alaskans during the trip. She said that, flying over the Yukon, she saw forests devastated by spruce bark beetles, believed to be increasing at an unprecedented rate because of warmer weather. She also talked of what a 93-year-old woman at a fish camp at Whitehorse told her.