KTAR.com - Udall, McCain hold global warming hearing

oth McCain and Udall said global warming is a grave global threat. But in the hearing, neither senator mentioned a sweeping climate change bill awaiting consideration in the Senate when lawmakers return next month.

UN chief to visit Norway's arctic region impacted by climate change - Monsters and Critics

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to be in Norway's Svalbard next week for a first-hand look at the damage caused by global warming on the Arctic Ocean, a UN spokesperson said Monday.

[Why doesn't Moon visit Chicago, so he can see the enormous damage done by the melting of its mile-thick ice covering?]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.