SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is heading for Alaska to see firsthand the effects of global warming as part of a Senate climate change tour.
KCBS’ Doug Sovern Reports
Alaska's freshman senator, Mark Begich, has invited four of his colleagues to spend a weekend in the Arctic. One of them is California Senator Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. She will see, for the first time, how Alaska's glaciers are shrinking and wetlands are drying.
"We're going to meet with the Indian tribes and they're going to talk to us about the change in climate, and what it's meant to them," said Boxer. "We're going to go on a real road tour of the state, stopping along the way to look at what's really happening with climate change, and what effects it's having."
Boxer will also get out on the water, to see the glaciers breaking apart, which she calls "awesome, in a frightening way."
The senators will also go all the way up to the North Slope, to see the oil drilling in Prudhoe Bay.
Boxer says she hopes to come home with a better sense of the real impact of climate change.
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