Roy Spencer passed on a note about this, and I figured I should post here before the event because there will be live video. And Mark Steyn.
Roy understates:
Ted Cruz’s climate change hearing (today at 3 pm EST) should be interesting. Witnesses on our side include my sidekick John Christy, Judy Curry, Will Happer, and (drum roll) Mark Steyn. I expect a few zingers.
He also notes live video will be available, see www.commerce.senate.gov for details, I don’t see them yet.
Here: http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings
Excerpts from http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060029040:
Cruz tees up panel on warming after taunting Obama
Hannah Northey, E&E reporter
Published: Monday, December 7, 2015
After poking fun at President Obama’s call for action at climate talks in Paris last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a GOP presidential candidate, is scheduled to convene a hearing on the effect of money and politics on climate research.
The senator last week accused Obama of mistakenly focusing on the threat of emissions over terrorism (ClimateWire, Dec. 2). “Instead of focusing on the perceived threat to national security of the SUV in your driveway, President Obama should be standing up and leading to defeat radical Islamic terrorism,” Cruz said during an interview in the Capitol. “But he refuses to confront the very real threats facing America today.”
The hearing will feature a number of climate doubters, including John Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, who disputes the consensus on human-induced climate change; Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology; and William Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton University.
Also testifying will be Mark Steyn, the Canadian National Review writer and author of “Climate Change: The Facts” who told attendees at the Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change this summer that his claim to fame is calling fraudulent the well-known “hockey stick” theory that Michael Mann — a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University — has developed.
The lone call for action to thwart the effects of climate change will likely come from the Democratic minority’s witness, Rear Adm. David Titley, formerly of the Naval Oceanography Operations Command, who recently joined Sherri Goodman, President Clinton’s deputy undersecretary of Defense, in calling on politicians to stop politicking on the issue of global warming (Greenwire, June 10).
Titley has predicted that as more Arctic ice melts, nations may want to revise the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, especially with regard to fish stocks moving north due to rising ocean temperatures. If that happens, he has said, nations like China could potentially file claims on Arctic resources while the United States would be left out of the negotiation process (E&E Daily, Oct. 1).
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Funny thing is, none of the “deniers” sitting at that desk DENY that as the planet warms, the seas will rise, temperatures will change, ice will melt etc. No one with a brain would deny that the planet has ALWAYS DONE THOSE THINGS, and will, most likely do it again. Markey seems to think that they do….which is odd.
He needs to read the title of the hearing very very closely and then think about that with all his might.
Thank you Yertle the Turtle for your questions.
You’re killing me here…LOL
The satellite record was impugned with “constant updates”. that had me groaning… as if the entire land and sea record isn’t constantly updated.
I wish someone would have said “sure, but at least the satellite folks keep the old versions around that you can check against”, unlike, say GISS…
Peter
Dear Ric,
“Climate Doubter(s)” is a nonsensical expression.
A more suitable expression in the context of your paragraph would be “global warming” doubter(s).
Please re-write your sentence. Thank you.
Regards,
WL
It wasn’t my sentence, it was from http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060029040 The term is from the AP, and Anthony would like to see it used more. It’s catching on slowly, and I prefer calling myself a skeptic anyway.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/23/the-associated-press-drops-the-ugly-climate-term-denier-in-their-ap-stylebook/
So no, I won’t rewrite eenews.net’s sentence.
There actually is something possibly revealing about this misuse of English: ‘Climate doubter’ or ‘Climate denier’. The CAGW crazies firmly believe that the ONLY thing that controls climate is man-made CO2 and if we can only control that we can create perfect weather from now till eternity. So when they say ‘Climate denier’ they mean ‘CO2 Does Everything denier’, because they having this idiotic CO2 idea about what causes climate.
It reminded me of an extended scene from “The Twilight Zone”.
The call to authority and consensus was nauseating.
The attempts at reversal of reality were laughable.
No progress appears to have been made toward reconciliation that man might affect climate but nature might effect it more.
I had to LOL at Titley’s attempt to “shell game” all the calculations needed to derive temps by satellite, after Happer pointed out that satellites are calibrated to balloon observations.
Everyone, please take the time to read Mark Steyn’s testimony in total.
His wickedly sharp humor is exactly what is needed to defuse the Alarmist bafflegab.
The Big Climate goons are laughably incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial (to borrow an old “Perry Mason” line)
Don’t bother arguing facts with Alarmists – just laugh at them, over and over again.
They are on the wrong side of reality.
That is one reason I am supporting Ted Cruz for POTUS. I think Trump is starting to self destruct. Saw the whole hearing, and hope there will be more debates such as that…
1. All climate sceptics should have a rebuttal for as many of the 97% figures as they can remember. The use of the 97% figure was a classic example of dogma that should have been highlighted – particularly as it was quite central to many arguments.
2. It needed to be pointed out that the thermometer datasets also had a pause until earlier this year when the pause was “corrected” out of the record.
I have to say that those present did a good job under what are quite difficult circumstances. The inquisitors know all the rules and use them to their advantage.
I thought Judith Curry got a difficult question somewhat outside her sphere of interest but she coped well – and can’t she “let rip” when riled?
They don’t have to remember figures at all. Just remember the title to a new book called “Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Consensus”.
or this link-
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/30/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming/
That committee needs to view this:
The Greening of Planet Earth
The arguments made by the Climate Liars were, as usual, stunningly weak and idiotic, falling back on the same, tired logical fallacies. Tittles trotted out the stupid “Risk Management” idea, that since we can never be 100% certain of anything, we can’t wait any longer to act, and mentioned “climate events” like Katrina and Sandy as examples of results of not acting. What we are up against isn’t just wrong; it is in fact evil.
As usual, indeed, Mr. Cobb. LOL, poor old Titley trots out the old Precautionary Fallacy under a businessy sounding name. “Risk management” (in the real world) attempts to prevent or to ameliorate known, risks. For instance, requiring workers to wear goggles when working with acid or to back up their data to an external hard drive.
Human CO2 has never been shown, not one measurement, only wild speculation, to cause any change (much less harmful change) in the climate of the earth.
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But, a little thing like lack of data doesn’t stop a Titley…
Announcer: Welcome to…… Climate Hour! (with host, Dave Titley)
{blah, blah, blah for about 50 minutes straight (with 2 rush-to-the-fridge-for-a-snack breaks for: 2 electric car ads, one solar panel ad, and an ad for men’s underwear made out of bamboo)}
Announcer: And now, this final word from our host…
Titley: Everyone! STOP EATING BEEF, NOW! It makes the weather fairies very angry and we CAN’T HAVE THAT NOW, CAN WE!
Announcer: And now, a word from our sponsor.
Titley’s Cousin, Eddie P. Roffiter: Hey! Guys! Come on down to Slick Eddie’s Supersubsidized Market! Buy our flavored puffed rice gelee! Tastes like beef! And saaaaaave your receipt! You’ll get a nice tax credit, too!
Skeptic Viewer 1 to SV 2: (mirthless laugh) Better buy a lot of it, suckers, , BECAUSE IT ONLY PROVIDES ABOUT 1% of the nutrition of beef…. whydidwewatchthatanyway……..
I got ‘angrified’: (Re: Data or Dogma) Dear Senator Markey,
A thoroughly cowardly, deceitful, partisan, uninformed, talking-point-tirade chock-full of mindless incantations of “the 97%” FRAUD, as well as the mindless repetition of the word “Republican”.
You should be ashamed, calling Judith Curry a Liar and denying her the opportunity to rebut! As at least one other has observed, you are: A RUMPSWAB, BUM-KSSING, COAT-HOLDING MOONBAT. HACK!, HACK! HACK!
Do The Republic a favor – take your gold-plated retirement and GO AWAY. Please God.
Peter H. xxxx
Major, US Army (ret.)
Titley: Alluded more than once to his duty to carry out the higher ups directives. It’s a shamew no one founfd a way to highlight the fact that he had received his order to ‘Put to sea’, so to speak. I GIVE HIM CREDIT for somewhat ostentatiously refusing to back O’bumble’s ‘Paris Climate Conference = “Strong Rebuke” (crippled by uncontrollable laughter) to ISIS’. What a friggin limp-dick Ivory Tower, Intellectually Vacuous, REALITY DENYING Narcissist he is.
Why did no one point out to Sn. Nelson that the high tide flooding in Miami happens when the sun, moon and earth get into the right alignment and it happens twice a year every year and has been happening for untold eons? It has nothing to do with global warming, CO2 or sea level rise.
J.B.
It would be hard to imagine that the Senator from Florida is unaware of the facts of high tide flooding in Miami Beach, as you have stated them. The Senator from Florida is interested in taking money from people in Kansas to give to people in Florida.