Sen. Boxer: ‘Stop the denial’ on climate change
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/05/boxer-stop-the-denial-on-climate-change.html…
Warmists upset: ‘Climate Denier’ Jim Inhofe Says He Could Lead Senate’s Top Environment Committee Next Year
Climate Denier Jim Inhofe Says He Could Lead Senate’s Top Environment Committee Next Year
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/19/3416539/inhofe-senate-epw-committee/
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
If Republicans gain control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) believes that he will lead the Environment and Public Works Committee. Inhofe made the comments to 50 plant managers in Catoosa, Oklahoma, the Tulsa World reports.
Inhofe, who wrote a book called, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, served as chairman on the environmental committee for four years. David Vitter (R-LA) replaced him as the ranking GOP member on the committee chaired by Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for the 113th Congress. GOP rules limit members to six years of service as committee chairs, meaning that Inhofe could theoretically reclaim his position for another two years should Republicans win the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections.
Inhofe, still a senior member of the environmental committee and ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, has been one of the most obstructive Senators when it comes to meaningful climate change legislation.
Besides his book, Inhofe authored a report titled “The Facts and Science of Climate Change,” in which he argued that “alarmists will scare the country into enacting their ultimate goal: making energy suppression, in the form of harmful mandatory restrictions on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions, the official policy of the United States.” He also questioned whether global warming “is even a problem for human existence.”
In fact, over 97 percent of climate scientists accept the reality of human-caused climate change.
Inhofe has also said that humans lack the ability to affect the climate because control is limited to divine powers: “The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what [God] is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”
In 2006, Inhofe compared environmental advocates to the Third Reich. More recently, Inhofe claimed that cold weather disproved his substantial opposition and that fewer Senators are supportive of efforts to address climate change.
During his 25-year tenure in Congress, Inhofe has received nearly $1.6 million in contributions from the oil and gas industries, by far his largest donor base. Fossil fuel organizations have donated over $300,000 to him since 2009. Inhofe is up for re-election this year, but he is unlikely to lose his seat.
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Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”
Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/03/investors-business-daily-dems-climate.html
Democrats, NASA Scientists And Global Warming
3/11/14 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Hysterics: Democrats from the secretary of state to Senate lawmakers can’t let go of their climate change obsession. Meanwhile, a group of NASA scientists and engineers says there’s no danger. To whom do we listen?
We’d say the folks at NASA. It’s unlikely the media will see it that way, though. They have too much invested in that other scientific “consensus” that says man is heating the planet to listen to officials at NASA who disagree with the press-feted, fanatically political James Hansen.
What do get wide coverage, though, are the rants of Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been screeching about climate change for some time now. Not so long ago, he called it “the greatest challenge of our generation.”
In addition to that madness, Kerry is asking the U.S. ambassadors who work under him to make climate change their diplomatic priority.
Not terrorism. Not Russia. Not America’s damaged reputation around the world. Not weapons of mass destruction in the hands of belligerents. Climate change.
“The environment has been one of the central causes of my life,” he told his envoys in what is reported to be his first department-wide policy guidance statement since becoming secretary a year ago.
Rather arrogant, we’d say, for the man to enlist an entire federal department, indeed, an entire nation, to fixate on one of the most important causes in his life.
While Kerry continues to bully his staff and distort foreign policy for a personal interest, Senate Democrats, 28 of them and two independents, held a global warming talkathon Monday night through Tuesday morning. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who is a co-founder of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, says Democrats wanted to use the all-nighter to “wake up Congress.”
The gabfest wasn’t a filibuster. It was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem — and away from the Democrats’ many real problems: the disaster of ObamaCare, the historically weak economy, unacceptably high unemployment and feckless foreign policy.
It was also a disturbing exhibition of silliness. The event was a sophomoric stunt and a profile in hypocrisy. As Anthony Watts wrote in his blog Wattsupwiththat, the senators had “a ‘denier bashing fest’ while” basking “in the warmth provided by …
Sen. Boxer cites ‘extreme cold’ as evidence of AGW: ‘Lessons From the Senate’s Climate Change All-nighter’ – ‘First, climate change is real and the deniers are losing ground’
…Up All Night! Senators Plan To Stay Up All Night To Talk Climate Change – ‘Aimed at stirring their fellow senators to action’
…Senators duel over climate change: Obama was on the verge of spurring the ‘biggest regulatory avalanche in U.S. history.’
- Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said Obama was on the verge of spurring the “biggest regulatory avalanche in U.S. history.”
- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., accused the EPA of working “to wipe out coal and eventually natural gas.” “It is clear that this EPA and this administration has an agenda, and that agenda is hurting jobs (and) raising energy costs,” he said. “This EPA is on the wrong side of the war on poverty.”
- Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the plans for tackling climate change — including new limits on utilities’ greenhouse gas emissions — represent “a massive, bureaucratic, expensive plan that will . . . cost jobs . . . and make our economy less competitive.”
Senate Democrats outlined the potential for large-scale economic and geological disruption from climate change — and insisted that the U.S. must act immediately.
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said the evidence of climate change is already being witnessed in more acidic oceans and rising seas. “Our sea levels are rising,” he said. “It’s not complicated. You measure that with a yardstick.”
- Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., used his inaugural Environment and Public Works hearing to blame industry for “epidemic asthma rates” and pollution in the Northeast. “Those who are doing the polluting (should) be held accountable,” he said. And he made a case for urgency. “We cannot afford to be too late and tarry away in needless and senseless discussion that undermine our ability to act.”
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry’s at Senate hearing: ‘Attempts to modify the climate through reducing CO2 emissions may turn out to be futile’ – UN IPCC now making ‘a weaker case for anthropogenic global warming’
More coverage of Senate climate hearing here. (All witness testimony here)
Link to Dr. Curry’s testimony: — PDF document
STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE – Hearing on “Review of the President’s Climate Action Plan” -16 January 2014 – Judith A. Curry – Georgia Institute of Technology
Selected Excerpts:
Curry: I am Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I have devoted 30 years to conducting research on topics including climate of the Arctic, the role of clouds and aerosols in the climate system, and the climate dynamics of extreme weather events.
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Curry: ‘The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for the current hiatus in warming’ – ‘The stagnation in greenhouse warming observed over the past 15+ years demonstrates that CO2 is not a control knob on climate variability on decadal time scales’
Sea Level: ‘Global sea level has been rising for the past several thousand years. The key issue is whether the rate of sea level rise is accelerating owing to anthropogenic global warming. It is seen that the rate of rise during 1930-1950 was comparable to, if not larger than, the value in recent years. Hence the data does not seem to support the IPCC’s conclusion of a substantial contribution from anthropogenic forcings to the global mean sea level rise since the 1970s.’
Ice: ‘The increase in Antarctic sea ice is not understood and is not simulated correctly by climate models. Further, Arctic surface temperature anomalies in the 1930’s were as large as the recent temperature anomalies.’
‘If the recent warming hiatus is caused by natural variability, then this raises the question as to what extent the warming between 1975 and 2000 can also be explained by natural climate variability.’
Heat waves: ‘The EPA also cites evidence that summertime heat waves were frequent and widespread in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record.’
Extreme Weather: ‘There is a large component of natural variability seen in the 100+ year data record particularly for drought and heat waves, each of which had maximum extremes during the 1930’s. Sea level rise also shows a maxima during the 1930’s to 1940’s’…In the U.S., most types of weather extremes were worse in the 1930’s and even in the 1950’s than …
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Sen hearing wrap-up — another backfire for warmism. GOP Senators strong. EPA dodgy. Skeptic Judith Curry strong. Boxer bails on own hearing.
Sen hearing: Sen Whitehouse claims certainty of sea level rise because his Rhode Island tide gauge gas risen 10 inches.
Sen hearing: Judith Curry defends against Sen Whitehouse attack. Says her thinking has evolved on climate since 2007 when she was a warmist.
Sen hearing: Sen Whitehouse presses Curry on what it means to be a skeptic. Curry says science is not about calling people names.
Sen hearing reveals upside to pollution: Sen Whitehouse says Chinese Communists worried about air pollution as a threat to their rule.
Sen hearing: NRDC warmist admits we shouldn’t do ‘crazy’ things on climate. So climate debate is “depends on what the meaning of ‘crazy’ is”
Sen hearing: Sen @JohnBoozman traps warmist Dessler on Nonsensus. Dessler admits many doctors once thought smoking was OK.
Sen hearing: Judith Curry says no way to attribute hurricane intensity to humans. Dessler admits no knowledge of attribution science.
Sen hearing: Judith Curry says much more research needs to be done on climate variability. Jumping to what needs to be done is wrong.
Sen hearing: Judith Curry says we shouldn’t pretend to know what will happen with 21st century climate. Labels such pretension as ‘hubris.’
Sen hearing: Curry says extreme weather dependent on natural climate variability. Will see more losses just b/c there are more people.
Sen hearing: Curry says climate models overly sensitive to CO2. Current warming stop could last until 2030s. CO2 not a temp. ‘control knob’.
Sen hearing: Skeptic Judith Curry says evidence of manmade warming now weaker than IPCC 2007 report.
Sen hearing: Attention frackers… NRDC warmists says EPA needs to crack down on methane emissions. Climate hell coming your way!
Sen hearing: NRDC warmist says EPA is justified in mandating CO2 capture/storage technology that does not exist.
Sen hearing: Warmist Andrew Dessler admits pause… But claims lack of warming doesn’t mean warming stopped. Claims models can predict pauses.
Sen hearing: Sen. Boxer’s new climate Nonsensus — 97% of young voters believe in climate change. Yes, she really said it.
Sen hearing howler: …