EPW Hearing Room – 406 Dirksen
Link to live video follows. Click link in names for each person’s submitted testimony.
Witnesses
Panel 1
| Dr. Heidi Cullen
Chief Climatologist Climate Central |
| Mr. Frank Nutter
President Reinsurance Association of America |
| Mr. KC Golden
Policy Director Climate Solutions |
| Ms. Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |
| Dr. Robert P. Murphy
Senior Economist Institute for Energy Research |
Panel 2
| Dr. Jennifer Francis
Research Professor Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University |
| Dr. Scott Doney
Director, Ocean and Climate Change Institute Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Dr. Margaret Leinin
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 IV University of Alabama, Huntsville |
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There’s barely enough room for the cheerleaders.
I like Diana!
Carbon pollution, Here we go again.Cant listen anymore,I’ll just wait for the short version.
I listened for about 5 or 10 minutes and Barbara Boxer’s position appears to be that any data she doesn’t like is derived from funding by the Koch brothers and Exxon/Mobil.
Maybe I just saw a good part, but she’s being made to look like the climate clown she is.
The major problem hereafter (actually dating from years ago) is that a whole sector of the scientific world (i.e. climatologists, etc.) have so damaged their credibility that those who have taken any notice of that will never be able to trust them. That’s certainly my position, as one who has only relatively recently paid full attention to this.
They could say that the grass is green and the sky is blue and I’d look at it skeptically, wondering where they are bending the truth, at best.
Hey Cullen, Sandy wasn’t a friggen hurricane when it made landfall. Stop lying!
looks like the game is up! And all the AGW chickens are coming home to roost and the future doesn’t look bright!
High marks for recycling are certainly due. The same lies keep being reused by the crimastrologists like cullen.
Love already the title of the hearing.
“Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.”
Manipulation often starts with specific language.
Thanks Anthony, I will read the testimonies. Watching is too painful.
I saw three graphs comparing model output to observations.
a) models vs sat/ballons diverging
b) models vs surface/sat/ballons diverging
c) models vs what? close agreement
what is the source for c? c included supposedly included the most data.
LAUGH — OUT–LOUD, that Senator Whitehorse is a dope! “The flounder fishermen will have to drive farther and farther………. ” Oh, yeah. They are hopping in their pick-ups and driving to the bottom of the bay, but, nearly running out of gas before they get there, and when they get there, there are no flounder, because… uh……… because they all went to……. to Vegas! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
What a buffoon!
Well, for Propaganda Whitehouse, er, Whitehorse, it CLEARLY was not about science.
Q. “what is the source for c?”
A. The air coming out of Whitehouse’s mouth
Senator Whitehouse seems to have given up on the atmospheric side of climate change. He says ocean is where to look for important signals, sealevel, flounders, ‘acidification’. I feel a new offensive approaching.
One note of hope from the charade in D.C. today is: In sales (and this was, for the Democrats, clearly and ONLY about selling the lie about CAGW), when a customer is confused, they say, “No.”
The CAGWers did NOT succeed in being persuasive. Their mumbling and lying and greasy squirming away from reality will not convince anyone. That is, the CAGWers did not WIN that hearing, thus, they are STILL LOSING the argument in the eye of the public.
CO2 is going up ———- temperatures are not. The End.
Certainly, the media will try very hard to amplify their squeekings into something more forceful, but, it will come off as stale. And it won’t sell papers, so….. the media will VERY soon turn its attention to HOLLYWOOD or SOMETHING real.
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NICE temperature stat from Dr. Spencer — “Don’t think D.C. will hit 103 today… that record was set in 1887.” Bahddah-bing — baahdda -boom!
Well, I can see that this topic is not as interesting as “Heidi Cullen,” so I will stop talking to myself!
Not interested in discussing her.
Did the alarmists arrange for the air conditioning to be turned off?
Being a Brit, I’m not used to these hearings, but is it standard practice to try to drag witnesses into the mud (creationism, Exxon and Koch brothers funding, tobacco)?
Or was this a global warming smear-the-evil-deni*rs special edition?
Well, I read through the testimonies. Spencer, Pielke, Furchtgott-Roth, Murphy did excellent jobs with their written testimony. Thank You!
The rest are an exercise in the use of logical fallacies, Zohnerism, cherry picking, and just plain old lying.
Dr. Jennifer Francis shows a graphic (figure 6) that compares the arctic ice extent on a date to the 1979 -2000 median. Surely even a politician can see the invalidity here. What do we remember about the 70’s? An impending ice age ring a bell?
They all (on the alarmist side) “address” the lack of recent warming by invoking the ocean heat content increase without bothering to mention that it is us skeptics that objected to the “scary” projections in part for the very reason that we thought much of the warming would end up going into the ocean therefore dramatically extending the potential timeframes of noticeable climate variances if not rendering the whole “problem” harmless.
I was too late to watch the testimony of any of the truth in science witnesses today, except for Dr. Spencer. You honored God, today, Roy Spencer. He will honor you.
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. … [you] will soar on wings like eagles; [you] will run and not grow weary… .”
[Isaiah 40:28-31]
Cullen’s presentation says:
“I am Heidi Cullen and I currently serve as Chief Climatologist at Climate Central.”
Climate Central is just another environmental organization that gets Rockefeller funding:
http://www.climatecentral.org/about/funding/
From what I’ve seen of their funding, its often aimed at promoting left-wing causes.
@Janice Moore –
You can read the written testimony via the links under the “witnesses” heading.
Generally, this seems to have been an empty exercise. It’s obvious that the alarmists haven’t learned anything and aren’t about to back off from their fantasies. Nothing will change, not even the climate, as a result of this marionette show. Only action by the skeptic members of Congress to shut down this nonsense will ever get any results.
I would have preferred to see the skeptics take a harder line and refer to studies of the role of the sun and other natural processes and how these dwarf the effects of any human activity. I would also like to have seen specific presentations as to how the greenhouse effect of CO2 is limited and is near saturation, so that increases in it will have a nugatory effect – perhaps, for example, by citing the example of commercial greenhouses where 1,200 – 1,500 ppm of CO2 do not appreciably affect the temperatures in them.
And above all I would like to have seen someone talk about the bullying tactics and the efforts of alarmists to silence skeptics and get those on the public record – and about the concomitant attacks by the Obama administration on civil liberties across the board, which are intimately bound up with AGW advocacy. Those are perhaps the most damning evidence against AGW, that it can only be advanced by deception and force, and that it is an excuse to trample constitutional rights.
All in all, I’m disappointed.
Will cspan play these meetings again? I missed this one and want to check out Sanders, heard his panties were wadded up his democrat…
The title of this esteemed panel of “know-it-alls”, cracks me up. The climate has been changing constantly for 4.5 Billion years, and will continue to change for the next 4.5 billion years. Yet the paranoia panel insists it’s all the fault of people born since 1900. Or maybe 1950.
What a freaking joke.
Are these idiots still going on about this tripe?