Fun and games at the US Senate hearing on Global Warming

A US Senate hearing has just been held under the Chairmanship of Senator Barbara Boxer “to focus on Climate Change and the serious threat it poses to our nation”.

(As an aside – I wonder if the proponents of global warming are so nervous and uncertain about their own creed that they need to use “Climate Change” as a euphemism. If they mean “global warming” why don’t they just say “global warming”? Or could they be just preparing their own fall-back positions in case “global warming” turns out to be “global cooling”?).

But if the good Senator’s hope was that the case for global warming (aka Climate Change) was going to be established beyond all reasonable doubt then it seems the hearings have spectacularly backfired.

From WUWT:

Quite a performance yesterday. Steve Milloy is calling it the “Zapruder film” implying it was the day the AGW agenda got shot down. While that might not be a good choice of words, you have to admit they did a fantastic job of shooting down some of the ridiculous claims made by panelists prior to them. While this may not be a Zapruder moment, I’d say that it represented a major turning point.

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Video link and links to PDF of testimonies follow.

Here is the video link, in full HD:

http://www.senate.gov/isvp/?type=live&comm=epw&filename=epw071813

Dr. Spencer writes about his experience here and flips the title back at them:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/07/senate-epw-hearing-climate-change-its-happened-before/

The PDF’s of each person’s testimony can be accessed by click on their names below:
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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