Wtnh.com, Connecticut News and Weather - Pelosi embarks on 4 days of climate talks in Europe: "(Washington, AP) _ Connecticut Democrat John Larson is among the congressmen joining House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on an overseas trip to talk about global warming.
Pelosi, Larson and six other House members left today for meetings with scientists and politicians in Greenland, Germany and Belgium on ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The trip comes shortly before a climate change summit next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
The protocol is a 1997 international treaty caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012.
Since Democrats took over Congress in January, both the House and Senate have proposed to push the nation more aggressively to reduce carbon emissions."
