McCain Leads Junket to Observe Global Warming

John McCain is getting into full presidential campaign mode, and it's more and more obvious every day that he plans to run a little left of center. Yesterday he decided to slam the administration on Iraq (always good for flattering sound bites from the press), and now he's leading some members of Congress on a hunt for global warming:

Arizona Sen. John McCain will visit Greenland, Turkey, Georgia, Montenegro and Italy as part of a Senate delegation headed overseas during Congress' summer break.

McCain and the other Republican senators want to observe the effects of global warming while in Greenland. They also will attend an A-list economic and political conference at a swanky northern Italian resort.

McCain and U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., favor legislation to cap industrial emissions in an effort to curtail global warming.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Mel Martinez, R-Fla., Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Richard Burr, R-N.C., and John Sununu, R-N.H., are slated to go on the congressional trip with McCain. The Greenland to Italy trip will start later this month and run through early September, McCain's office said Wednesday.

The Senator is from Arizona. If he wants to find warming, all he needs to do is walk out his front door. He doesn't have to go all the way to Greenland.

Of course, whoever the people are who are leading him down the global warming path to Greenland probably won't mention this report.