Daily Briefing - 3/2/07: Global Warming, UN, 2008 Election, and of course CPAC

It's beautiful here in DC today. Spring Training is in full swing. Rick Santorum will join Fox News, and global warming is as dangerous as war. Have a nice day!

MW

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Daily Briefing – 3/2/07
612 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- UN SecGen Ban Ki-Moon: Climate change poses as much of a danger to the world as war
o UN hopes to take the lead
o Also from New Zealand Herald, NYT
- World’s scientists launch global warming study
- Global warming affects hunting
- Corzine faces some opposition on the Hill
- Google, PG&E, Bay Area firms pledge to fight climate change
- CA lawmakers come to DC to promote their law
o Cities and states working to slow climate change
o It’s a local concern
- Gore takes the show to Oklahoma
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- A mood of gloom at today’s Conservative Political Action Conference
o Little love is expressed
- Most support a U.S. guarantee of health care
- Democrats unveil bill to curb CEO pay
- Don’t like the Iraq bill? Add some Ag pork!
Potential ‘08ers…
- McCain (Santorum says no thank you), McCain again (will accept public funding in a general election), Hillary v. Barack (stage set for Selma, AL), McCain again again (“wasted” words), Romney (criticizing rivals), Hillary v. Barack II (SC Black Caucus speaker?), McCain one last time (will his impressive life lead to the WH?), Giuliani (smeared by Romney), Giuliani again (the not-so-wildcard), Edwards (hits $1 million), Obama (a new twist to an intriguing family history), Romney again (“The media loves me!!!”)
- California is enjoying its electoral muscle, as lawmakers prepare to move its primary date to 2/5
Other News from the Media
- Big firms broke rules after Katrina cleanup
- T. Boone Pickens: Oil production has reached its peak
- If there’s one person not to get angry… it’s Erin Brockovich
- Your commute may be killing you
…and the Blogosphere
- Robert Bluey is liveblogging CPAC
- Hotline: 2008 Race Rankings: The Democrats
- The Fix: 10 House races to watch in’08
- TomPaine: Green, efficient excess
- Campaign for America’s Wilderness: If the roadless rule doesn’t stand, we’ll soon be out of wilderness
- Oil Drum: Is nuclear power a viable option?
- MYDD: Establishment frightened of African-American swing to Obama
- Grist:
o Pandora’s box in Antarctica
o Stars and Stinkers
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- A picture isn’t just worth a thousand words… sometimes its 106,000 aluminum cans or 30,000 reams of paper…
- Bioenergy wiki
- Sustainability is bringing sexy back
- Neutral my @$%
- D.C. Madame to sell 10,000 phone records of high end Washington clients
Quotes O’ the Day
“It didn’t take long for [Gore] to get knocked off his high horse, which I might add emits a dangerous quantity of methane. Low horse, much more efficient.” Stephen Colbert, on the Gore energy kerfuffle