Last weekend, Sen. Barbara Boxer led a delegation from the Environment and Public Works Committee to Greenland:
- Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
- Ben Cardin (D-Md.)
- Bill Nelson (D-Fl.)
- Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
- Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
- Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
- Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Inhofe sent staffer Mark Morano, a former writer for the rightwing Cybercast News Service. Richard Alley of Penn State University, the lead author on the United States Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the scientific advisor on the trip. They met with Arkalo Abelsen, Greeland’s environmental minister.
News coverage
* Associated Press: Georgia senator views effects of climate change in Greenland
Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia traveled to Greenland over the weekend to get a firsthand glimpse at the effects of global warming.
The first-term Republican from Marietta said the trip reinforced his belief that the United States should gradually move away from fossil fuels like oil and coal. But it didn’t convince him that more urgent steps are needed, and he remains unconvinced that the current warming is a departure from long-term natural cycles.
“There is no question that carbon (dioxide) is contributing to the warming but there’s also no question that warming is cyclical and has happened in the past,” he said in a phone interview Monday.
- OC Register: Sen. Boxer going to Greenland, Boxer sees global warming up close
- Cybercast News Service: Greenland Trip Stokes Boxer’s Global Warming Fire