A battle is developing over who will be the ranking Republican member on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) once the Democrats take control of congress in January. Senator Barbara Boxer, as the ranking Democrat, will be the committee chairperson. However now Senator John Warner (R, VA) has announced in a press release that he will seek the position of
ranking member on the committee.
In Al Gore's documentary on global warming "An Inconvenient Truth", there is a graph that shows how carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been increasing. It is called the Keeling Curve.
The California legislature and Governor Schwarzenegger are negotiating over a bill, AB 32, that would require California to cut it's greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. The importance of California to solving the global warming problem can be seen by comparing it's emissions of greenhouse gases to the emissions of entire countries who report emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Governor and the legislature have until Thursday to reach an agreement. Below is a status report (crossposted at www.blueclimate.com)
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