House Speaker Nancy Pelosi honored the sacrifice of American men and women who have given their last full measure of devotion by going to Greenland and Germany.

Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat unfamiliar with glaciers, has determined that global warming is real.

The California Democrat pointed to her delegation's weekend stop in Greenland, "where we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it."

"It wasn't caused by the people of Greenland — it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world," she said.

Or the sun. Whatever.

Everyone should be happy to note that while climate may be changing, the Associated Press' standard -- and wrong -- background paragraphs don't change.

[Pelosi's] trip comes ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit and a climate change meeting next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012.

President Bush rejected that accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and unfair excludes developing countries like China and India from its obligations.

President Bush, a unanimous Senate, what's the difference?