Update: video link added below at 730PM PST (H/T to Joe S.)
From C-SPAN, Click for video player
When you watch this video it is clear Ms. Boxer does not have any interest in listening to what Dr. Spencer had to say, nor does she apparently care that she just insulted him on national television. Ms. Boxer, have you no shame?
From the Rush Limbaugh show, some sparks flew when Boxer beclowns herself at the end of Dr. Roy Spencer’s testimony. (Link to testimony here)
Excerpt-
Limbaugh transcript: I’m going to make Barbara Boxer the official clown of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Can you believe this? Folks, I can’t tell you how much I wish my mom and dad were alive to see all of this. To have a brilliant and independent scientist, a former NASA scientist, be insulted simply because he has an association, a tongue-in-cheek association. We don’t have an official climatologist here. I just know Dr. Spencer and I learn from him. He’s a scientist, a scientist that we all know and love and trust here. He’s written a great book about global warming, and these snide little Democrats, these little liberals just have to go, eh, eh, eh. Dr. Spencer is now going to be more famous than he ever thought he would be. (laughing) Can you believe this? “I just want everybody to make sure they know what’s really happening.” What’s really happening, Senator Boxer? What’s really happening? (laughing) “I just wanted to point that out for people to understand.” Yeah, like I wrote his testimony, I wrote his talking points, I even had a secret wireless communication in his ear. I was answering questions they were asking. (laughing) And Obama says there’s going to be unity.
Transcript follows:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072208/content/01125107.guest.html
At Hearing, Official EIB Clown Attacks Official EIB Climatologist
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: The official climatologist of the EIB Network, Dr. Roy Spencer, a brilliant independent climatologist and scientist, former NASA, he’s now at University of Alabama at Huntsville, testified before Senator Boxer’s committee on climate change research, and they had the following exchange.
SPENCER: In conclusion, I am predicting today that the theory that mankind is mostly responsible for global warming will slowly fade away in the coming years, as will the warming itself, and I trust you would agree, Madam Chair, that such a result deserves to be greeted with relief. That concludes my testimony, and I’d be willing to answer any questions.
BOXER: Okay. I also want to point out on that on your own blog you said you never were told you couldn’t speak about your scientific views. And lastly, I guess is a certain congratulations, Rush Limbaugh referred to you as the official climatologist of the Rush Limbaugh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
SPENCER: Yeah, that’s tongue-in-cheek reference.
BOXER: Right. But I just want to point that out for people to understand. I just want to make sure everybody knows what’s really happening.
RUSH: Oh, my, poor Dr. Spencer! Poor Dr. Spencer! Barbara Boxer attempts to disqualify his expertise by linking him to this program. Yes! (laughing) “I just want everybody to know what’s really happening.” What’s really happening is that, what, did I write his testimony? Did I write his opening remarks? What happened, Senator? I’m going to make Barbara Boxer the official clown of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Can you believe this? Folks, I can’t tell you how much I wish my mom and dad were alive to see all of this. To have a brilliant and independent scientist, a former NASA scientist, be insulted simply because he has an association, a tongue-in-cheek association. We don’t have an official climatologist here. I just know Dr. Spencer and I learn from him. He’s a scientist, a scientist that we all know and love and trust here. He’s written a great book about global warming, and these snide little Democrats, these little liberals just have to go, eh, eh, eh. Dr. Spencer is now going to be more famous than he ever thought he would be. (laughing) Can you believe this? “I just want everybody to make sure they know what’s really happening.” What’s really happening, Senator Boxer? What’s really happening? (laughing) “I just wanted to point that out for people to understand.” Yeah, like I wrote his testimony, I wrote his talking points, I even had a secret wireless communication in his ear. I was answering questions they were asking. (laughing) And Obama says there’s going to be unity.
END TRANSCRIPT
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Nancy Pelosi has a very, very small intellect.
WHoops. Looks like I’m one to talk. Are Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer interchangeable?
Are Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer interchangeable?
Yeah, pretty much.
“Be assured that a walk through the ocean of their combined intellect
Would scarcely get your feet wet.”
with apologies to Christopher Guest, Deteriorata
What do you expect Boxer to say? She does not even understand Roy Spencer’s presentation, let alone refute them, or even ask a pertinent question.
And Hansen and Schmidt are the “official climatologists” for Al Gore and George Soros…
So, what? Who can not understand that in twenty years there has been no net warming in the UAH data?
Being associated with Rush Limbaugh probably will do nothing good for Dr. Spencer’s scientific career. Although, I can see why would do it. Rush’s show gives him the biggest soap box to stand from. Senate committee hearings aren’t bad either. Too bad the wicked witch of the left is the head of inquisition. LOL!
Is it true that Spencer said on his blog that he “never were told you couldn’t speak about your scientific views”?
Boxer seems to be explicitly claiming a contradiction to his testimony today: “during the Clinton-Gore Administration I was told what I could and could not say during congressional testimony”.
Does Botox affect the brain?
This is simply one more example of the fringe left wetting their pants (panties) as they continue witnessing their fraud disintegrate before their eyes.
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate project
http://www.climateclinic.com
my oh my….
And we are going to pay Boxer the Clown a huge retirement from our own pockets!!!!!
The media will fawn all over Boxer (and Pelosi) while ignoring Spencer. Most of their viewers will never see anything that doesn’t follow the One True Path. The Rev’s website may be one of the best things going, but it will touch only a tiny fraction of the voters.
The bandwagon rolls on. As Newton said, “things in motion tend to stay in motion”
Interesting that Spencer’s work matches up with the empirical data and the climate models don’t.
But then, we shouldn’t expect Boxer to be as familiar with the actual empirical data as we might be and Spencer certainly is.
The big problem here is that Boxer and the advice she will get from Hansen et al is to shut down Spencer and the other independent data analysis agencies and satellites. We need the MSU and MODIS satellite data etc. to keep the Hansens reasonably honest and testimony like this puts these agencies and instruments at risk.
“But I just want to point that out for people to understand. I just want to make sure everybody knows what’s really happening.”
Doesn’t that just get under your skin? I don’t know how I could have stayed silent if I were Spencer.
Glenn, I’m interested in that question too.
Do we have any verification on whether or not he was told that he couldn’t say certain things under testamony? I would enjoy pointing this out to several people I know, but I want to know it’s strong before doing so.
[Over the top. Inappropriate~Charles the moderator]
I’m inclined to believe Spencer regarding being told what could and could not be said. I recall Bruce Babbit’s (Clinton’s Interior Secretary) public statement that it was immoral and unamerican to question the administration’s (Clinton-Gore) position regarding global warming.
I had Rush on today and totally missed this. Mostly, he was ragging on Obama and I guess I was filtering too much out.
Rush only has Roy Spencer (or is it James Spann) on the air a couple of times a year, is my best memory. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s on because of this in the coming days if not tomorrow. hahaha Love it!
That is the same Senator Bouncer… I mean Boxer that was elected after bouncing 153 checks in the House banking scandal. If she can’t even keep her own checkbook, how is she going to deal with the comlicated issues of climate?
We’re so blessed to have these clowns in the government. In the old days, all they had to do was tell the drive by parrot to make it so, and they did. In the Internet age, it simply is not going to work out that way.
In the end, only the truth will survive.
What clown would have thought that ‘pay more in taxes so government can pretend to control the weather’ was a good idea.
Limbaugh has a video link up on his front page to Roy Spencer’s testimony. Here it is…
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=a30b7a81-d051-45d9-b075-d9f3e3dca368
World’s Greatest Deliberative Body tackles CLIMATE CRISIS.
I always thought that was a bit of a joke as applied to the U.S. Senate, this absolutely confirms it to be a joke.
By her performance Senator Boxer has brought disgrace upon herself and the Senate. Such smear by innuendo is not the way to treat a respected scientist of Dr. Spencer’s stature. Disagree with specific findings of the scientist’s presentation but don’t engage in such ad hominem attacks. I would expect the same respect from Senator Inhofe were he to question a scientist presenting a study favorable of AGW.
The Democrat party people that are in the press the most, why do they seem to be so out of touch with the real world? Why do women seem to make more stupid comments vs. men in the same positons?