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
@Janice Moore –
Yes, I hope it is Dr. Spencer’s moment, and the moment of all who have been fighting the good fight against the worst campaign of ignorance since the Inquisition. And I hope that we skeptics all have the satisfaction of seeing the alarmists crumble before Dr. Spencer, Senator Inhofe and the others on the front line here, and be reduced to incoherent whining. Will I cry if they are brutally humiliated? Yes, with joy.
Pay attention folks. This is the part of the debate that counts….
Speak up, or not be heard.
You do make a difference just by understanding the questions.
Hey, Chad, yes, indeed. GOOD FOR YOU to do your best (as I read above) to get the word out to the senators/staff. I hope God says “Yes” to my prayers… (He so often says, “Not yet,” or “No”… but, every so often, there is a great big “YES!” well, we shall see…)
OssQss, you are SO right and your commonsense observation NEEDS to be emphasized. Our wonderful scientists are so careful, so true to the scientific method (and GOOD FOR THEM), that, it is hard for them to switch gears and advocate for a position. They need to be reminded of the dire importance of standing up NOW and speaking FORCEFULLY for a position, the truth. Our freedom, our livelihoods, and, in some cases, our very lives depend upon it.
george e. smith says:
July 16, 2013 at 1:02 pm
@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 ??
Actually George, Heidi’s Ph.D. is in climatology and ocean-atmosphere dynamics.
With the Full Committee hearing entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.”, it is already biased as one would suspect.
An alternate title should be “Climate Change: It’s Happened Yesterday, it’s happening now, and it will happen tomorrow.”
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_id=cfe32378-96a4-81ed-9d0e-2618e6ddff46&CFID=73966952&CFTOKEN=61404929
mddwave — LOL. Yup! #[:)]
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Mike Bentley says:
July 16, 2013 at 5:47 pm
George E. Smith
“I never can keep Pielke Sr and Jr separated into the correct encampments.”……””””””
Mike you completely misunderstand my comment. Based on the work of both the Pielkes, which have been reported here often at WUWT those two scientists are not always in lockstep. They sometimes have different views. And I made no judgment of the sincerity of either of them, or the quality of their separate works.
It’s just I have never made any note of which of the two is more of a skeptic; or more of a believer or whatever; I just know they often have different views.
“””””…..Eliza says:
July 16, 2013 at 3:14 pm
I actually disagree with many skeptical climate scientists that in the Earth’s atmosphere situation C02 has any effect at all …..”””””
I’m with you Eliza. I think the water cycle feedback regulation (evap / condense / precip) is so powerful, that we would have to eliminate the oceans to change the Temperature of the earth by much (given the existing orbital and solar conditions.
george e.smith says:
July 16, 2013 at 10:22 pm
“””””…..Eliza says:
July 16, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Count me in. Climate Sensitivity to mankind’s CO2 output will eventually be found to be a big fat zero.
And, Jean Meeus – you know full well that the meme, when it suited the lawyers/activists was ‘global warming’. It only changed to ‘climate change’ when the globe was found to be not warming catastrophically.
The statement you made could be construed as trolling and definitely puts you into a certain camp that like to nitpick and split hairs to get points.
Pielke Jr. is not a scientist, he is a political science professor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Pielke,_Jr.
How convenient to have a Government Made disaster in the making when the hearings start. http://www.wtop.com/58/3389798/Prince-Georges-water-outage-like-a-natural-disaster
George,
Sorry, sometimes my brain doesn’t sync with what the words mean to the author. Yeah, sometimes they don’t agree, wouldn’t you like to be at the Sunday family dinner table to hear the conversaations between them?
“Climate Change: It’s Not Happening Now. Weather Is.”
Andrew
“Dr.” Heidi Cullen must be there for the pre-schoolers in the crowd.
She’s not as light-weight as you think. Check her publications. link It is possible for intelligent people to make a reasoned argument for CAGW. Insulting those people won’t convince them otherwise. Some of them will never be convinced, no matter how much evidence we throw in their faces. It doesn’t matter, science will pass them by and the population in general will see that we have the evidence on our side.
Name calling is what people do when they don’t have evidence.
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commieBob says:
July 17, 2013 at 9:14 am
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Don’t care what her publication list is — she showed her real colors for the few seconds I could tolerate on the notorious TWC. Her “presentation” to the senate will be perfectly predictable and politically correct.
@Janice Moore –
And I’m also badgering the local media in my community, Chico, California (mostly to the left of left, as Anthony who also lives here can tell you) mercilessly to push them to present stories on global warming alarmism and the scientists who reject the AGW fantasy.
Of course it’s an uphill battle anywhere in the Democratic People’s Republic of Kalifornia (DPRK – the initials expressing so well its philosophical and ideological solidarity with North Korea, the other DPRK) to get media recognition of simple facts. The funny part is how all these so-called reporters are passing up the greatest news scoop of our time.
WAY TO GO, CHAD WOZNIAK!
I feel your pain (writing to you from beautiful SS (Seattle Socialists)-infested Washington). Geographically speaking, about 80% of the state is for free markets and liberty. Population-wise, three or four Envirostalinist cities on Puget Sound turn our state blue every time.
Liberals are, as a rule, are timid, “worried,” people, hence, they tend to congregate in cities where they feel secure and cared for (BARF!).
@Janice Moore –
I look at it very simply: the alarmists are pushing me (along with a helluva lot of others, of course, but I still take it personally), so I push back as much as I can. It doesn’t take any thought – it’s simply a reflex..
In 1998-1999 I spent 6 months in Seattle at a job that didn’t work out, and got plenty of leftist claptrap thrown at me while I was there. I was the CFO of a startup company there, and my boss, the CEO, was as rabid a leftist as any – and to show his true colors, one of the reasons he canned me was because he found out I am married to African-American woman (still am – together 23 years now, and still as crazy about this beautiful, wonderful, extraordinary person as ever).
Scratch any lefty (and presumably any global warming alarmist) deep enough and the good ol’ boy mentality comes right out in ’em. They might express it a little differently (they say to black folks, “you really aren’t smart enough to think for yourselves, so we have to think for you), but the bigotry is just as pure.
I had to snicker, because this mollusk lived on Republican Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle. Just deserts, methinks, for him.
P.S. Way to go, Janice moore!
And my apologies for my horrendous typing, Janice *M*oore!
Anyone want to start a pool about how much time Spencer will have? My guess is 90 seconds. Just long enough for the record to show that a skeptic and a scientist was present and for him to be thanked for his written testimony and to apologize for being out of time.
Chad,
Thank you so much for sharing. One of the drawbacks to this site (which is also, a strength, viewed in another light) is the lack of getting to know people a bit. I feel okay going OT here, BTW, because this thread is largely defunct. Yes, Democrats come in all flavors — kindhearted ignoramuses, pro-union racists, closet-racist socialists, etc… . A LOT of minorities, amazingly, are openly “my people”-race-supremacists. Well, all we can do on that front is to live a life of love and ignore the ignoramuses.
I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU, that you are still madly in love with your lovely wife (that never happened for me). That you two are together makes me smile and smile. You (and she, too) have been in my prayers as you deal with your challenges. I did picture you as both of the same race, that you are a beautiful blend is SO COOL.
Well, well. There are so many extraordinarily fine people on this site (every once in awhile, a poster will let out a clue or two… hm… that goes for some really TROUBLED people, too — boy, do we have those, too!).
The big TWENTY-FIVE is coming up in 2015 (or so). In case I’m not around here to wish you well, please accept my heartfelt, CONGRATULATIONS!!! (oh of COURSE you will make it, lol)
That was kind of you to bother to capitalize my precious last name, but, please don’t trouble yourself in the future. I would have thought nothing of it.
Looking forward to Roy Spencer’s Big Day tomorrow!
Janice
@ur momisugly Chuck Bradley — LOL, I think the odds are in your favor, there.
I’m going for the long shot, though (because I want it to happen so badly!). My bet is (I’ll pay $2 each to up to 50 people who win — they can just tell me “way to go” if I win, I’ll be so happy money wouldn’t add a thing to my joy): SPENCER GETS ALL the time and CLEANS UP!
God may say, “No,” but, I’ve asked for the above and He just may say “YES!” — thus, my optimism — “faith is the substance of things hoped for.” #[:)]
“still as crazy about this beautiful, wonderful, extraordinary person as ever” [Chad Wozniak about his wife]
A husband with that kind of love, so strong that he SAYS it…. OUT LOUD, is rare. This one’s for you, Chad, and your beautiful wife. Here’s to the next 23!
“… heaven’s gift to me… .”
God bless you.