Ouch! ‘Senate global warming
hearing backfires on Democrats’ — Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama! —
‘Skeptics & Roger Pielke Jr. totally dismantled warmism (scientifically,
economically, rhetorically) — Climate Depot Round Up
‘Sen. Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change’ -- Warmists
Asked: 'Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming
has accelerated during the past 10 years?' For several seconds, nobody said a
word. Sitting just a few rows behind the expert witnesses, I thought I might
have heard a few crickets chirping'
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July 19, 2013 11:14 AM
Climate Depot Round Up of July 18, 2013
Senate Environment & Public
Works Committee Global Warmnig Hearing:
‘Sen. Boxer’s Own Experts
Contradict Obama on Climate Change’ – During
yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearings, Sen. David Vitter asked a
panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer, “Can any witnesses
say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the
past 10 years?” For several seconds, nobody said a word. Sitting just a few
rows behind the expert witnesses, I thought I might have heard a few crickets
chirping, but I couldn’t tell for sure. We’ll give Obama the benefit of the
doubt and count the crickets in the “maybe” camp. After several seconds of
deafening silence, global warming activist Heidi Cullen, who formerly served as
a meteorologist for the Weather Channel, attempted to change the subject.
Cullen said our focus should be on longer time periods rather than the 10-year
period mentioned by Obama. When pressed, however, she contradicted Obama’s
central assertion and said warming has slowed, not accelerated.
Several
minutes later, Sen. Jeff Sessions returned to the topic and sought additional
clarity. Sessions recited Obama’s quote claiming accelerating global warming
during the past 10 years and asked, “Do any of you support that quote?” Again,
a prolonged and deafening silence ensued. Neither Cullen nor any of the other
experts on the panel spoke a word, not even in an attempt to change the
subject.
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on
Warmist Heidi Cullen’s testimony: ‘She does include some dubious and misleading
statements’ – Curry on
warmist Jennifer Francis: ‘She makes several statements
about the science that seem to me to be misleading’
Warmist Heidi Cullen’s claim at
Senate climate hearing of ‘73% increase in heavy downpours’ is not supported
by data – What the data says: ‘Floods
have not increased in the US in frequency or intensity since at least 1950.’
Full Senate Testimony of
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer formerly of NASA: ‘Weather and climate vary
naturally, and by amounts that are not 2 currently being exceeded; (2) global
warming theory is just that – based upon theory; & (3) there is no unique
fingerprint of human caused global warming’ – Spencer is
Principal Research Scientist IV University of Alabama, Huntsville: ‘The belief
that global warming and associated climate change involve more
severe weather cannot be supported observationally…There is little or no
observational evidence that severe weather of any type has worsened over
the last 30, 50, or 100 years, irrespective of whether any such changes
could be blamed on human activities, anyway. Long-term measurements of
droughts, floods, strong tornadoes, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms etc.
all show no obvious trends, but do show large variability from one decade
to the next, or even one year to the next.’
PROF. ROGER PIELKE JR: TESTIMONY
ON THE CURRENT STATE OF WEATHER EXTREMES: ‘It is misleading, and just plain
incorrect, to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes,
floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United
States or globally’ – Link to full testimony of Roger
Pielke Jr. to Congress:
‘It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters
with the emission of greenhouse gases’ Globally, weather-related losses
($) have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP (they have
actually decreased by about 25%) and insured catastrophe losses have
not increased as a proportion of GDP since 1960.
• Hurricanes have not increased in the US in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900. The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970 (when data allows for a global perspective).
• Floods have not increased in the US in frequency or intensity since at least 1950. Flood losses as a percentage of US GDP have dropped by about 75% since 1940.
• Tornadoes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since 1950, and there is some evidence to suggest that they have actually declined.
• Drought has “for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century.” Globally, “there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.”
• The absolute costs of disasters will increase significantly in coming years due to greater wealth and populations in locations exposed to extremes. Consequent, disasters will continue to be an important focus of policy, irrespective of the exact future course of climate change.’
Scientist tells senators: Global
warming not causing extreme weather – Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. : ‘It is
misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with
hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales
either in the U.S. or globally’
Read Full 21-Page GOP Senate
Climate Report: ‘Critical Thinking on Climate Change’: – ‘Questions to Consider Before Taking Regulatory Action and
Implementing Economic Policies’ Wildfires have not increased: ‘Historical
analysis of wildfires around the world shows that since 1950 their numbers have
decreased globally by 15%. Estimates published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences show that even with global warming proceeding
uninterrupted, the level of wildfires will continue to decline until around
midcentury and won’t resume on the level of 1950—the worst for fire—before the
end of the century.’
Flashback May 2013: Submitted Written Testimony of
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Congressional Hearing on Climate Change: ‘The
Origins and Response to Climate Change’ — Morano to the
U.S. Congress: ‘The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim — from
A-Z — the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing, and in
many instances the claims are moving in the opposite direction. The global
warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.’
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