Dispatch from the North
While most Americans are enjoying the beach or barbeque, this week Chairman Markey, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and several members of the Select Committee are on a fact-finding congressional delegation in Greenland, Germany, the UK and Belgium. You can read about it here and here.
We'll have updates all week on this trip. Here's the first set of pictures from Greenland. The crew has not yet made it up to the famous Swiss Camp on the Greenland ice cap yet because of the weather, but they hope to make it there today. This isn't a Memorial Day beach trip, after all.
Chairman Markey and Speaker Pelosi. That's an iceberg behind them that has already turned over, hence the smooth surface.
Fun fact: during the peak summer melt months, enough water melts from Greenland's glaciers everyday to supply New York City with water for a year!
This is an iceberg that has not yet eroded and turned over. Hence the more jagged look.
Chairman Markey and the group ran into some fishermen grabbing tonight's dinner.
Keep an eye out for more photos and other dispatches coming in over the course of the week.
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