Daily Briefing - 4/6/07: IPCC, IPCC, IPCC, IPCC.....

IPCC Report #2. It's a doozy.

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Daily Briefing – 4/6/07
577 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: Report #2
o NYT, Internat’l Herald Tribune, SF Chronicle, Bloomberg, Reuters(India), Seattle PI, Alaska Report, WSJ, Gulf News, Billings Gazette, Earth Times, Grist
o A moral obligation, Fear over diluted warnings, Stark picture of a warming world, National Council of Churches call for immediate action, The peril we face, World’s poorest will suffer the most
- Permanent drought predicted for Southwest
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Fort Wayne: A planetary victory
o Indianapolis Star: Bush brushes off Supremes
o Could impact IT
o Alabama Times Daily: Not so clean
o Florida Today: The green light
- Gov. Doyle (D-WI) highlights energy and global warming efforts, including an Office of Energy Independence and Task Force on Global Warming
- The real cost of climate change and why doing good is better (for profits!) in the long run
- Threatening natural wonders
- Mauritania being buried
- Asia tourism faces chaos
- Kansas City Star: U.S. must lead the world
- Great Barrier Reef at risk
- John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry: Warming to the idea of change
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- New regulatory head favors hands-off approach… oh boy
- Mideast media mostly upbeat on Speaker’s visit
- Sen. Inhofe sees himself as “the next Pombo”
- Apple… not so green
Potential ‘08ers…
- Romney (no no really… I am hunter!!!), Obama (finding that success breeds more success), Thompson, Fred (gearing up), Romney again (using his wealth), Giuliani (will not seek abortion changes), Giuliani again (take him or leave him), Bloomberg (and the money machine), McCain (can he win?), Obama again (offering a health care revamp), Edwards (quiet momentum), Clinton and McCain (a spending spree awaits),
- There will be more voters in Florida
Other News from the Media
- Wildlife smugglers test their skills
- How supply-side economics trickled down
- Unemployment rate drops to 4.4%
- So the daylight savings one month early? Yea, didn’t do much
…and the Blogosphere
- The Fix’s Friday Governor Line
- Wired: Panel releases report after late-night politicking
- National Review: Life Lessons for Rudy
- Huffington Post: Bleak report issued… but hey, don’t worry
- Only In It For the Gold
- Grist:
o The warm on terror
o Slow Food Nation
o Why waiting for fossil fuels to run out isn’t such a good thing
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Holy cow! An ambidextrous pitcher!
- Doonsebury takes on Mitt Romney
- Martha Stewart, menu-maker for the space bound
- And up on Mars… a problem with warming
- Al Gore to open Tribeca Film Festival
- When (gay couples) wish upon a star!!!
- Wow. Bill O’Reilly blew a gasket
Quotes O’ the Day
“Global warming’s potential to harm wildlife is one of the report’s central findings. Temperature increases of just a few degrees may propel 20 to 30 percent of all species toward extinction.” Larry Schweiger