Daily Digest: June 2, 2008
Cold rush: Alex Shoumatoff takes a trip to Russia’s far north to investigate the complexities of the Arctic oil rush.
The Lieberman-Warner climate bill makes it to the senate floor this week. Though John McCain says he won’t be returning to Washington for the vote, and it seems likely that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will miss it as well, the San Francisco Chronicle highlights the key players in this weeks senate debate.
Meanwhile, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chair Rick Boucher (D-Va.) are still working on a climate bill for the House.
Senator Barbara Boxer used this week’s Democratic Radio Address to drum up support for Lieberman-Warner and will hold a Lieberman-Warner press conference on C-SPAN3 this afternoon.
The Washington Post reports on the obstacles to capping greenhouse gases.
Is global warming going to increase the number of this year’s hurricanes? Whether it does or not, insurance companies are raising premiums and cutting coverage, reports the Miami Herald.
The New York Times reports that some of the nation’s largest corporations have been meeting with environmental groups to discuss carbon caps. Plus: the high price of gas is threatening mid-range restaurants.
A long-standing recording error that had for a long time lead scientists to assume that their had been a global cooling period just after World War Two has been identified, according to a report that appears in Nature Reports this week. Plus: Nature Reports’s blog, Climatefeedback reports that “the British Antarctic Survey and the UK’s Met Office have released a pair of new layers for Google Earth that depict the effects of climate change across a 3D map of the globe.”
– Christopher Greenspan
Tags: climate change, global coolingblo, global warming, Lieberman-Warner