The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday will hold the first big congressional climate change hearing since President Obama unveiled his global warming plan in late June.
Below is the witness list for the hearing titled “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.”
Dr. Heidi Cullen, chief climatologist, Climate Central
Mr. Frank Nutter, president, Reinsurance Association of America
Mr. KC Golden, policy director, Climate Solutions
Dr. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Dr. Robert P. Murphy, senior economist, Institute for Energy Research
Dr. Jennifer Francis, research professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Dr. Scott C. Doney, director, Ocean and Climate Change Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Margaret Leinen, executive director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., professor, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado
Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/310973-climate-change-showdown-takes-shape#ixzz2ZDgntKA6
Reid’s “Nuclear Option” and Obama’s “Climate Change push” are coordinated strategies.
don’t see Dr. Spencer in the list
The hullabaloo over the Zimmerman/Martin issue is an orchestrated crisis to distract attention from the climate change efforts of the administration (and Reid’s efforts to do away with the filibuster, and a host of other issues).
GTFrank
Dr Spencer is last on the list.
GTFrank says:
July 16, 2013 at 8:16 am
don’t see Dr. Spencer in the list
— last name on it. Try again.
Does anyone have a feeling for how well balanced this hearing will be vis-a-vis whether global warming is actually caused by anthropogenic CO2? Who among the witnesses are actual climate scientists? Cullen and Spencer are, others obviously aren’t. I expect that those others will take global warming as a given and will talk about the possible consequences.
Whatever the climate is doing, the big deal is whether the change is due to CO2. Will that issue be adequately be addressed?
Philip Aggrey: Dr Spencer is last on the list.
Dr. Spencer doesn’t appear on “The Hill” list. Their omments only attribute the skeptic side to Pielke.
DUH – climate change is happening now. Get real – climate change is always happening. Done so ever since climate was invented.
Sad, two scientists and a bunch of socialist propagandists and most of those have a vested interest in the CAGW scam.
eugene watson says:
July 16, 2013 at 8:30 am
Climate, it would appear, was invented in Wirth’s hearing in 1988 or whenever it was. Before then it was just weather.
The reason the warmist nuts changed from “global warming” to “climate change” is that now, instead of being woefully wrong, they can always be right.
No DRR Doom and no ,legend in his own mind , Mann , therefore clealry this waste of time .
Yes, I meant “The Hill” list in the linked article.
I have a geology book printed before 1988 that talks about “climate”.
How prescient is that?
“Climate Change: It’s Always Happening.”
Should we petition our Senators to include Dr. Mann and VP Gore?
eugene watson says:
July 16, 2013 at 8:46 am
The reason the warmist nuts changed from “global warming” to “climate change” is that now, instead of being woefully wrong, they can always be right.
Well it is about since that the climate stopped changing 🙂
It’s interesting to note that those hearings about Global Warming – Climate Change – Climate Disruption are never scheduled in January or February, but always in July and August.
I wonder if someone will be tampering with the room’s air condition during the hearings again…?
I “somehow” got left off the list given to The Hill. I told Anthony I was, indeed, testifying.
And since Dr. Spencer confirmed he was added to the list, I put his name there, so that the list presented here would be correct.
Here’s an excellent summary of the the actual state of climate science by writer “yukonjack” in Veterans today:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/07/15/solar-cycle-24-freezes-out-al-gore/comment-page-1/#comment-492506
It’s really worth to spread – disregarding what you think of Veterans Today.
Quick, haul out the poor, tired “usual suspects”;
the ice is melting
hottest decade
weird, extreme weather
species vanishing
97% consensus
etc., ad infinitum absurdium
and be sure to mention the recent flooding in India.
Also, be sure air conditioners are suddenly in need of repair.
Among the people in the list, one of them would be more informative if it was lengthened to say, Mr. Frank Nutter, president, Reinsurance Association of America, representing the viewpoints of Al Gore and Greenpeace.”
In only the 2nd paragraph of this PDF file ( http://evanmills.lbl.gov/pubs/pdf/peara.pdf ), it says “At the Conference on Climate Change and the Insurance Industry in 1993. Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, drew much attention in the insurance and environmental press. In 1995, Nutter joined officials from six other major U.S. insurance organizations to discuss climate-related threats with Vice President Gore and experts on climate change.”
The 1993 conference was put together by Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2006/3/leggett-insurance-climate.pdf
And Al Gore was more than happy to quote Nutter in 1994 ( http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/EOP/OVP/html/climate.html , 11th paragraph), As Franklin Nutter says — he’s the President of the Reinsurance Assn. of America: “The insurance business is first in line to be affected by climate change. Global warming could bankrupt the industry.”
And where did Gore find Nutter’s “bankrupt the industry” quote? From the ’93 Greenpeace conference, as noted deep within this article written by Greenpeace’s Jeremy Leggett ( http://www.skeptictank.org/treasure/GP4/REINSU.TXT ): In September, at a seminar organised by the US College of Insurance, Greenpeace USA, and the insurance consultancy firm ET&T, further leading figures in the reinsurance industry spoke out on the subject. Said Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America, “Greenpeace, it seems to me, makes a good case that we have significant and, perhaps, permanent changes in our climate in this country … It is the threat of natural catastrophes that drives the demand for insurance products on property. It’s also clear that climate change could bankrupt the industry.”
Enviro-activists are all just one big happy family. No surprise that Frank Nutter shows up at their various reunions……
My amateur assessment of the cast with respect to ACGW probable position:
Cullen – pro
Nutter – pro
Golden – pro
Furchtgott-Roth – skeptic
Murphy – skeptic, but his main interest and knowledge seems to be how to fight carbon taxes
Francis – pro, but not sure
Doney – pro
Leinen – pro
Pielke, Jr. – skeptic, but always to my mind a bit unpredictable and unable to put my finger on his actual position
Spencer – skeptic
I guess this is what passes for a well-balanced panel these days.
“The reason the warmist nuts changed from “global warming” to “climate change”….
Is that so? The IPCC is the International Panel on Climate Change, so “Climate Change” is a name that exists since at least the IPCC has been created. Or am I missing something?
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail2/USDC0001
Good timing for the CAGW’s