Posted on 12/05/2009 1:44:23 PM PST by AJKauf
When the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the state of climate science on December 2, the Republicans were ready to focus it on the Climategate fraud scandal. And the first witness, President Obamas science adviser, Dr. John P. Holdren, was ready to respond.
Instead of summarizing his written testimony in his oral remarks, Holdren read a prepared statement on Climategate. He said that the controversy involved a small group of scientists and was primarily about one temperature dataset. He said that such controversies were not unusual in all branches of science and that they got sorted out through the peer review process and continuing scrutiny. Holdren also said that openness and sharing of data was important, which is why the Obama administration is strongly committed to openness. In the case of the disputed dataset (the hockey stick graph), the National Academies of Science (NAS) undertook a thorough review of it and all other similar datasets and concluded that the preponderance of evidence supported the principal conclusion of the research. Holdren concluded by predicting that when the dust settles on this controversy, a very strong scientific consensus on global warming will remain.
Well, that sounds pretty plausible, but anyone who has followed Dr. Holdrens amazing career knows that he is a master of plausible buncombe that disguises his outlandish scientific assertions, consistently wrong predictions, and dangerous public policy choices, as my CEI colleague William Yeatman has put it....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
“I thought the lefties were telling us that virtually all scientists believed in global warming.”
Yeah. That was part of their mantra with the “concensus” business they kept repeating ad nauseaum.
These people just keep up the Goebbels act when they want something. Kinda like little kids keep pestering until they get what they want. I think it’s why the Left don’t like parents smacking the kids, and telling them to shut up.
Amen.
Does the "R" next to the name make one socialist any better than the one with a "D" next to their name?
It's kind of like having a turd sandwich and getting to choose the bread. It's still a turd sandwich.
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