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
@ur momisugly commieBob.
“””””….. Who among the witnesses are actual climate scientists? Cullen and Spencer are,…..”””””
Actually isn’t Dr. Heidi Cullen simply a meteorologist, formerly of the Weather Channel on T&V ??
Not knocking Meteorologists; but a proctologist is also another kind of ologist who is not an accredited scientific expert on climate.
I’m just guessing (a branch of climatology) that Dr. Roy Spencer is about the only non MMGWACCC disciple on the list . I never can keep Pielke Sr and Jr separated into the correct encampments.
Oh I forgot; this is check bouncing Mrs Barbara Boxer’s ( hey I’m a Senator here General, and don’t call me ma’am; well how about Madam then ?) committee.
I think “Stupidity: It’s Happening Now.” would have been a more apt slogan.
I wonder what other upcoming committees are scheduled:
“Gravity: It Weighs on All of Us.”
“Evaporation: Moisture’s Murderer.”
“””””…..Eliza says:
July 16, 2013 at 10:15 am
I think DR Spencer was added later due to complaints re too many alarmist. It appears more balanced now at least……””””””
Yeah Eliza; just like a diving board is balanced, so it doesn’t fall into the pool by itself; you actually have to jump for yourself. It would be too dangerous (for the preorgenda) to have a “see-saw”/teeter-totter/ whatever, instead of a diving board.
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I don’t know the inner workings of how such hearings are set up.
Is there a possibility that others that are not on the list above will be testifying?
I hope someone during the hearing points out that the temperature has only risen 1 degree F since 1880. The whole climate change fiasco is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot.
I would take each senator a copy of “Use and Abuse of Statistics” and open my testimony with some relevant quotes from it.
Okay, all important question here…..
What word or phrase should be allocated for our “drinking game”??
Consensus?? Extreme weather events?? Extreme glacier ice/snow melt?? Unprecedented temperature extremes?? Massive sea level rise??
Wow, this could get ugly, I better call my office and request a day off on Friday….
Dear Dr. Spencer,
Even if the number of those on the side of truth in science are small, even if you are the only one, GOD AND ONE ARE A MAJORITY.
Remember Gideon! [Judges 6-7]
“… ‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'” [Judges 6:12]
I am praying for you.
Sincerely,
Janice Moore
Truth will win.
“Even if the number… IS small… .” [|o]
@Gunga Din –
Yes, let’s hope so – it sure wouold be nice to have Anthoony, Dr. William Happer, Stewve McIntyre, Dr. Tim Ball, Dr. Fred Singer, to name a few.
Since Senator James Inhofe is on the committee, I wonder if he could call them as witnesses? I’ll check with his office
This is for you, Roy Spencer, for all those long hours reading until you could hardly stay awake. For all those lonely hours writing and writing and thinking and writing in front of that computer screen. For the years and years spent training your mind, fighting for the truth, with very little recognition. Now is your moment. GO FOR IT!
“… only one, but not alone.”
And, Joe Bastardi and ALL you WUWT science giants, hang in there! Your opportunity is coming.
President Obama unveils his global warming war plan:
According to intelligence reports from Eric Holder’s Department of Political Crimes, we now have comprehensive proof that the American people have weapons of mass carbonization, and they pose an immediate threat to our government.
We have no choice but to take action against America. I am calling this “Operation Enduring Freedom”.
First we will gain air superiority, by using our drones to take out all republican voters, all power plants, and every oil pipeline.
Then we will put boots on the ground to ensure there is a smooth transition from a democracy to a benevolent wind powered collective.
I ask that everyone remain calm and cooperate fully with EPA storm troopers as they do their job in rooting out Carbon terrorists. If you see your neighbors creating carbon pollution make sure that you turn them in to our troops in the “Carbon Rapid Response Force”.
Well I’ll be in the cheering section for Dr. Roy, but having watched those things in the past; I’m convinced that the whole lot of those bumson the committee have no interest in any facts, and they just want to give the public illusion that the senate actually does something in the public interest. Well they really just want to get back out to the Senatorial Bar, and in Mrs Boxer’s case, just kite another unfunded check.
As an aside, when Richard Wagner was a sort of political activist refugee in Paris in the mid 1800s, he had finished his new opera Tanhauser; and desperately wanted to get it performed, because he (and I think first wife Minna too) needed some income.
Well the Paris Opera, was the only place worth getting your opera performed, in Paris, if you needed the money; and you had to compete with the Offenbachs and the Meyerbeers for time on the ticket.
Well the Paris Opera, at the time, was run by the Paris Jockey Club (you think I’m kidding don’t you ?). So if you wanted your opera performed at their Opera, then you needed to put a ballet, in the second act of your opera. Well Offenbach can can write a ballet with the best of them; but Tanhauser is about the knights of the Holy grail, and all that which goes with Lohengrin, and eventually Parsifal. It has as much chance of performance at the Paris Opera, as Tales of Hoffmann does at the Vatican on Sunday.
Now the reason the ballet has to be in the second act is highly technical. The jockey club patrons liked legs, and you can can appreciate that they also didn’t like to get to the Opera, in time for the opening Overture, or the rest of Act One for that matter.. So nyet on the ballet in Act One idea.
Well the jocks also didn’t want to hang around for act three (III), because they were in a hurry to get to the bar, so nyet on Act three for your ballet.
So Richard Wagner wrote that whole underworld baccanalian BS, in “The Paris Version” of Tanhauser (in the second act), just so’s he and Minna could buy some groceries in Paris.
Now does Mrs bouncer Babs Boxer’s Senate committee on Environment and Public Works sound to you anything like the Paris Jockey Club of the mid 1800s ??
So Dr Roy, you just go get ’em, and do your thing. Remember that Richard Wagner went on to shatter the public’s notion about what a truly great work of Art should be.
Let someone watch the windows and the thermostat of the Senate’s heating system(LOL)
It’s true that the term “Climate Change” has been there from the beginning and warmists haven’t just pulled it out of a hat recently. What HAS happened is that in public discourse “global warming” used to be used much more often by warmists than it is now–they’ve switched to “climate change,” for an obvious reason.
I urge someone here to do a survey of the relative frequency of the two terms on Google, for each year going back to 1985 or earlier, if possible, and to present a chart showing the trend in usage.
I actually disagree with many skeptical climate scientists that in the Earth’s atmosphere situation C02 has any effect at all (most of them do), on global temperatures unless it was to reach many thousands of parts per million. It seems to me that the negative feedback massively outweighs any positive effect whatsoever that added C02 may have.. re past ice ages when C02 was way above current levels and Lindzen’s work on positive and feedback.effects of added human C02
Thanks, Anthony.
I’m hoping Dr. Spencer and Dr. Pielke will be heard.
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I hate to sound …uh… skeptical but that does leave one to wonder if the IPCC knew all along the hypothesiss of CAGW and Hockey Sticks raining from the CO2-laden sky was BS …but it was useful.
If “Climate” isn’t “weather” then why haven’t we heard the the ethical, fine upstanding spokesmen for IPCC object to terms like “Weather Wierding” and “Exteme Weather”?
PS These guys aren’t dumb. They are shrewd.
It’s a scandal that countries that have fallen for the warmist scare apparently didn’t give contrarians a hearing like this one (and others that have preceded it in the US). That is what Europe’s we-know-best politicians should be held accountable for. They shouldn’t be allowed to weasel out of their responsibility to have held hearings by saying that they “trusted the scientists.” Instead, they apparently trusted the activists’ line that all contrarians had to say was misinformation that should not be given any opportunity to publicize itself.
CAGW is not affecting the insurance industry. What is affecting the industry is the stupidity of covering idiots who invest large sums of money in property in the coastal zones. These insurance costs should be barred from being spread to those wise enough not to build there.
Roy Spencer —Give them HILL Roy…um where is my spill checker?
Seriously, Good hunting!
Mike
George E. Smith
“I never can keep Pielke Sr and Jr separated into the correct encampments.”
If you’re talking about encampments of warmists or “skeptics” that’s because I don’t think they are affiliated. They are running around doing real science and talking about where they are on the trail at this point. Agree or disagree with them, their correspondence here reeks of science done well rather than the crud that we often see (sometimes from both camps). Anthony’s website roof is adequate to handle all who practice science well, no matter what the result seems to be. The result is we all come away with a better understanding.
Mike
Transcript of BBC interview, “How to grill a warmist politician”. Link here:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_to_grill_an_alarmist_politician/
With Boxer as the Chair, every known cliche preferred by Alarmists will be trotted out at the beginning. How to respond, given that Rush Limbaugh will not be permitted to puncture all those little balloons? Maybe Spencer’s now famous graph.
@ur momisugly Dr. Spencer
“It’s in my written evidence”
What use is that? You will be faced with politicians who can’t read and “journalists” who won’t. You need to present it as a big, colourful, very simple graphic, and hold it up in front of the committee and cameras.
Re-mem-ber to put hy-phens in an-y big words.