Social anthropology major Gina McCarthy will begin fossil-fueled travel around the country to sell the climate hoax; Barbara Boxer is organizing a fossil-fueled “climate trip” around California to visit communities “experiencing wildfires due to climate”

Social anthropology major Gina McCarthy will begin fossil-fueled travel around the country to sell the climate hoax; Barbara Boxer is organizing a fossil-fueled “climate trip” around California to visit communities “experiencing wildfires due to climate”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/social-anthropology-major-gina-mccarthy.html

Dems’ recess game plan: Push climate message – POLITICO.com Print View“The Democrats should seize the opportunity to contrast themselves with the nihilistic House Republicans by advocating solutions to these challenges — including climate change,” said Daniel Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.Organizing for Action, the successor to Obama’s campaign arm, is planning a “national action” day Aug. 13, which will focus on climate change.Ivan Frishberg, climate change campaign manager at OFA, said the group is organizing events in the states and districts of the 135 lawmakers it has labeled “climate deniers” as part of the action day. The events are aimed at “holding them accountable” for questioning climate science, he said.“With these folks, it’s hard to get to a conversation about solutions when they deny the science,” Frishberg said….The Obama administration has launched its own campaign to sell the climate plan, with the president dispatching key members of his administration — including newly confirmed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — to take part in “an aggressive outreach effort,” a White House official said in an email….Starting next week, McCarthy will begin traveling around the country to discuss the importance of acting on climate change….Barbara Boxer told POLITICO she is organizing a “climate trip” around California during the recess.“I’m going to some of the communities that are experiencing wildfires due to climate,” Boxer said.…

Warmists bemoan Senate climate hearing thrashing: ‘All of the Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee question the science behind climate change’

Warmists bemoan Senate climate hearing thrashing

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/21/warmists-bemoan-senate-climate-hearing-thrashing

Noting reality is somehow “parroting anti-science.” Tiffany Germain writes at Climate Progress: All of the Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee question the science behind climate change. Fueled by millions in donations from the fossil fuel industry, on Thursday, these Senators used the committee as a way to simply parrot the […]…

U.S. Senate Hearings: Pro-AGW Experts Confirm Obama Lied About Global Warming

U.S. Senate Hearings: Pro-AGW Experts Confirm Obama Lied About Global Warming

http://www.c3headlines.com/2013/07/us-senate-hearings-pro-agw-experts-confirm-obama-lied-about-global-warming.html

At the recent U.S. Senate hearing on climate change, the Democrats’ own anti-CO2 experts confirmed that global warming has disappeared over the last decade+, much to some joint chagrin…..their agreement with the known scientific evidence also confirms that Obama was……

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Sen. Boxer’s key warmist expert on ocean acidification: ‘Doney’s [Senate] testimony didn’t score too high on my credibility meter’

Ocean acidification discussion thread | Climate Etc. http://judithcurry.com/2013/07/19/ocean-acidification-discussion-thread/

Curry cites Idso’s research:  ‘Are coral reefs really in their last decades of existence? Will the shells of other calcifying marine life also dissolve away during our lifetimes? The NRDC film certainly makes it appear that such is the case; but a little scientific sleuthing reveals nothing of substance in this regard. In fact, even a cursory review of the peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals that an equally strong case – if not a more persuasive one – can be made for the proposition that the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration will actually prove a boon to calcifying marine life. Sadly, however, the NRDC chose to present an extreme one-sided, propagandized view of ocean acidification’…

Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer comments on Senate climate hearing: ‘Roger Pielke, Jr. was absolutely devastating in his testimony’

Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before”

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

OK, so yesterday’s hearing really was entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now”. I like my title better.
In this exceedingly rare photo of me actually cracking a smile, note my subliminal shout out to the “Coke” brothers (whom I’ve never met, btw…I don’t even know what they do):

From the opening remarks made by the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, apparently you can see climate change yourself just by looking in your backyard, or seeing how far from shore fishermen must go now to catch fish, or even (help me with the logic on this one) the fact that smoking causes cancer.
I just submitted my updated written testimony (Spencer_EPW_Written_Testimony_7_18_2013_updated) to include the following chart (Click for full size):

This chart illustrates that, yes, we are currently warm, but not significantly warmer than the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or the Roman Warm Period (RWP). So how is it we know today’s warmth is human-caused, when the last two warm periods couldn’t have been caused by humans? Hmmm?
And if you want to hit me with a Hockey Stick, might I remind you that there are many more papers supporting the MWP and RWP than there are supporting the Hockey Stick’s slick revision of history?
Or does “consensus” only count when it supports your side?
What’s that you say? The hockey stick is now the “new consensus”? So a scientific consensus can be wrong, after all? Hmmm.
Hearing Post Mortem
The advertised star of the show was Heidi Cullen (aka “de-certify all TV meteorologists who don’t toe the line on global warming Heidi”) who did an admirable job of presenting a litany of half-truths (hurricanes have increased [except in the last 7 years]; strong tornadoes have decreased [but she couldn’t bring her self to actually say that]; wildfire acres burned have increased dramatically [but the number of wildfires have decreased dramatically…all consistent with the USFS “let it burn” policy]; droughts and floods have increased [except NOAA’s charts say there is no change over the last 100 years], etc.).
Roger Pielke, Jr. was absolutely devastating in his testimony. Here’s a guy who claims to largely support the IPCC party line, even claiming increasing CO2 is having a “profound” effect on the climate system, yet he chides those who would try to use severe weather as evidence of climate change. …

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

Climate Depot Round Up of July 18, 2013 Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Global Warmnig Hearing:

Analysis: ‘Senate global warming hearing backfires on Democrats’ — ‘Skeptics & Roger Pielke Jr. totally dismantled warmism (scientifically, economically, rhetorically) at today’s Senate hearing’ (via JunkScience.com) 

‘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.

More JunkScience.com tweets from today’s Senate hearing: “25 years after Jim Hansen birthed warmism in Senate hearing, skeptics all but stomped warmism to death in Senate hearing”

Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘Majority witnesses helping Democrats on EPW to dig the extreme weather hole deeper and deeper. Does that really help?’

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.’

Flashback 2007: Warmist Heidi Cullen Calls for Decertifying Global

‘Sen. Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change’

Uh oh: “Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/uh-oh-own-experts-contradict-obama-on.html

Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change | Heartlander MagazineExpert witnesses called by Sen. Barbara Boxer to testify during Senate Environment and Public Works hearings Thursday contradicted a key assertion made by President Barack Obama on climate change….During Thursday’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?”Nobody said a word. After several seconds of deafening silence, Weather Channel meteorologist and global warming activist Heidi Cullen 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.…