PELOSI, MARKEY DISCUSS GLOBAL WARMING IN WASHINGTON

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming discuss President Bush's recent comments on global warming in the context of their recent trip with a bipartisan Congressional delegation to Greenland and Europe to see impacts of global warming on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 1, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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