The Foundation of Climate Science

The Foundation of Climate Science - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2010-05-06 - Even after months of personal attacks against climate scientists stemming from a manufactured scandal over stolen emails, the underlying science behind the need to stem the tide of heat-trapping emissions remains solid. To explain what we know about climate change, and why and how we know it, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hosted top-level American climate scientists at a congressional hearing on Thursday, May 6, 2010. The scientists addressed the claims of deniers head-on. Thursday's panel featured a member of the investigative panel convened by the University of East Anglia and led by Lord Ron Oxburgh to review the stolen emails from that school's Climactic Research Unit. The "Oxburgh Inquiry" exonerated the scientists who were attacked following the emails, saying they "saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work." The hearing also included three scientists involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, which have also been attacked by climate science deniers. The Republican witness on the panel was Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. WITNESSES: Dr. Lisa Graumlich, Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, and member of the "Oxburgh Inquiry" panel; Dr. Chris Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and co-chair of "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" portion of new IPCC report due in 2014; Dr. James McCarthy, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University, past President and Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, co-chair of "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" portion of IPCC report published in 2001; Dr. James Hurrell, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, contributor to IPCC reports; Lord Christopher Monckton, Chief Policy Adviser, Science and Public Policy Institute. Video provided by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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[myownspiritlevel]

Global warming is actually a good thing: longer growing seasons, lower heating costs in northern climes, more agricultural lands available further north. Mankind suffers much much more when there is global cooling.

[OccamsRzzr]

That was not enough time for either side.

[OtagoMark]

@elsbymike You'll have to do better than that. Try something more believable, ad not so easily researched

[elsbymike]

@OtagoMark Just spotted this and had to laugh. You have been conned!!! Lord, he is not even a lord Monckton is a con artist, he chrry picks facts and shows only portions of graphs in his presentations. He confusing the weak minded. He likes attentions and he likes walking in the same steps as scientist in which he is not. He is a journalist and his books on science have never been published or verified by other scientist. What next the world is flat. Wake up and think

[OtagoMark]

@WaltHawtin he presented more FACTs than the others there...and its my understanding that he was invited, and if that the case then he does have a right to be there...Also theres misinformation on the other side of the debate too...even the scientists that support AGW make mistake's...Why hold monckton to a higher standard?

[WaltHawtin]

@OtagoMark @OtagoMark @OtagoMark Come on. Is this a Dorothy Dixer? Monckton had no right to be there. Not one single rational reason. No science background, let alone climate science, and a history of debunked interpretations. The man is a charlatan and he is quite guilty of misrepresenting facts on regualr bases, even after errors are pointed out to him.So why is he there? Why does he put himself up as the limate Change Denier? Does he do it for free? Is he paid? Who by?

[OtagoMark]

They were unbelievably rude to Lord Monckton....I couldn't believe what I was hearing, very disheartening to hear adults behaving like that

[OtagoMark]

1934 is the hottest Hurrel and that wasn't in the last 15 years

[FantasticBob7000]

@LarryUK65 Not only that, they forgot to explain how and why such biased scientists were working in climate change to begin with. It's amazing they're perplexed & frustrated about losing the public's trust.

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