Daily Briefing - 1/23/07

It snowed a foot in Arizona yesterday.

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Daily Briefing – 1/23/07
650 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- IPCC releases a “smoking gun” report
o Fox News: Already happening, getting worse
- Pressure on President heats up
- Internal rifts cloud Democrats’ opportunity on warming
o The Speaker vs. The Dean
- California: State starts work on plan to curb greenhouse gases
- Mayor Greg Nickels: Emissions reductions start local
- Oregon Statesman Journal: Another View
- Dubai to host global warming summit
- Al Gore goes to Idaho
- Grist: Texas, coal, and climate change
- On the Coulee region (WI) agenda
- It snowed a foot in Arizona
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Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- So how is the state of our union? We will find out tonight
o Mayor Fenty snubs Laura Bush, takes Pelosi’s invite
- The Politico is launched
- More college freshman now show interest in politics
Potential ‘08ers…
- Obama (questions about his grade school?), Clinton (going to New Hampshire), Clinton again (wooing black vote), McCain (bashing Cheney), Kerry (still pondering)
- The many stages the campaign in played on
Other News from the Media
- A radical step to preserve a species: Assisted Migration
- Springtime for Ethanol
- Gov. O’Malley (D-MD) backs clean car initiative
- The secret is in the rocks? Tapping of granite may unleash an unexpected energy source
- Stricken cargo ship leaking off the coast of England
…and the Blogosphere
- The Politico: Chairmen rumbling over new climate panel
- They Work For Us is born with the founder of DailyKos as one its heads
- Over at RedState they have a bunch of advice for the President for his SOTU
- Speaker Pelosi: Wildly popular?
- TomPaine: Creating Green-collar jobs
- Grist:
o Tree-planting and global warming
o Update on Bill McKibben’s Step It Up campaign
o Prius: Just as good as advertised
o Vinod Khosla’s forecast for 2007
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Oscar nominations are announced. Here’s hoping my man Marty finally gets his due
- Do you believe in magic? An article on superstitions.
- Now will this be good for her “image”
- Umm, I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with this former Pastor as my tour guide
Quotes O’ the Day
“It’s like looking in a drawer full of diamonds.” ~ White House Press Secretary speaking of tonight’s State of the Union

“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.” - Frank Zappa