Global-Warming Panel Has the Power of the Hot Seat

Global-Warming Panel Has the Power of the Hot Seat

By Lois Romano
The Washington Post
Thursday, March 15, 2007; Page A17

Ed Markey is all about props today, moving from a 30-year-old framed news clipping about global warming to a stark chart about oil dependence to the gigantic world map dominating the wall over his office sofa.

"I think we can visit Greenland -- take the members there to look at it," the Massachusetts Democrat is saying like a man who was just handed $1.7 million to travel the world, which in fact is pretty close to the deal. "You can see in Greenland . . . that if the huge sheet of ice -- huge, massive sheet of ice melts, that the consequences are quite catastrophic."

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