McCain, Other Puke Senators On Junket To Watch Greenland Melt

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Arizona Sen. John McCain will visit Greenland, Turkey, Georgia, Montenegro and Italy as part of a Senate delegation headed overseas during Congress' summer break.

McCain and the other Republican senators want to observe the effects of global warming while in Greenland. They also will attend an A-list economic and political conference at a swanky northern Italian resort.

McCain and U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., favor legislation to cap industrial emissions in an effort to curtail global warming.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Mel Martinez, R-Fla., Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Richard Burr, R-N.C., and John Sununu, R-N.H., are slated to go on the congressional trip with McCain. The Greenland to Italy trip will start later this month and run through early September, McCain's office said Wednesday.

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http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/08/21/daily29.html

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. I have $100 that says...

They were really looking at the possibility that possible oil reserves under Greenland will become extractable once the glacier melts. Another $100 says they were looking at personal real estate deals to live in a relatively cool climate as global warming continues and their multi-million dollar beach-front vacation homes are submerged by rising oceans.

[Ian David]

2. I bet they're visiting someone like GOP Donor Pat Broe

As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO
Published: October 10, 2005

CHURCHILL, Manitoba - It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.

Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap - finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded - is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.

By Mr. Broe's calculations, Churchill could bring in as much as $100 million a year as a port on Arctic shipping lanes shorter by thousands of miles than routes to the south, and traffic would only increase as the retreat of ice in the region clears the way for a longer shipping season.

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Increasingly, big corporations, the eight countries with Arctic footholds and other nations farther south are betting on the possibility of a great transformation. Energy-hungry China has set up a research station on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and twice deployed its icebreaker Snow Dragon, which normally works in Antarctica, to northern waters to conduct climate research.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?ei=5088&en=1f4059714b781260&ex=1286596800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all


CONFLICTING CLAIMS Canada and Denmark both claim little Hans Island off Greenland.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. And you know what they say about men with Little Hans....

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