Posted on 07/22/2008 9:40:36 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team
U.S. Senate Hearing on Climate Science - Study Finds 'Mostly Natural' Warming
[Note: Below is testimony from today’s hearing “Full Committee hearing entitled, “An Update on the Science of Global Warming and its Implications.” Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer was one of the scientists testifying and deatlied new studies showing “mostly natural” climate influences. ]
Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer, formerly of NASA:
New Study Finds ‘warming we have experienced in the last 100 years is mostly natural’ (Spencer is currently Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center University of Alabama in Huntsville
Spencer’s Testimony Excerpt: On the subject of the Administration’s involvement in policy-relevant scientific work performed by government employees in the EPA, NASA, and other agencies, I can provide some perspective based upon my previous experiences as a NASA employee. For example, during the Clinton-Gore Administration I was told what I could and could not say during congressional testimony. Since it was well known that I am skeptical of the view that mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions are mostly responsible for global warming, I assumed that this advice was to help protect Vice President Gore’s agenda on the subject. […]
Regarding the currently popular theory that mankind is responsible for global warming, I am very pleased to deliver good news from the front lines of climate change research. Our latest research results, which I am about to describe, could have an enormous impact on policy decisions regarding greenhouse gas emissions. Despite decades of persistent uncertainty over how sensitive the climate system is to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, we now have new satellite evidence which strongly suggests that the climate system is much less sensitive than is claimed by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. […]
If true, an insensitive climate system would mean that we have little to worry about in the way of manmade global warming and associated climate change. And, as we will see, it would also mean that the warming we have experienced in the last 100 years is mostly natural. Of course, if climate change is mostly natural then it is largely out of our control, and is likely to end -- if it has not ended already, since satellite-measured global temperatures have not warmed for at least seven years now. […]
Based upon global oceanic climate variations measured by a variety of NASA and NOAA satellites during the period 2000 through 2005 we have found a signature of climate sensitivity so low that it would reduce future global warming projections to below 1 deg. C by the year 2100. […]
Obviously, what I am claiming today is of great importance to the global warming debate and related policy decisions, and it will surely be controversial. These results are not totally unprecedented, though, as other recently published research6 has also led to the conclusion that the real climate system does not exhibit net positive feedback. […]
I hope that the Committee realizes that, if true, these new results mean that humanity will be largely spared the negative consequences of human-induced climate change. This would be good news that should be celebrated -- not attacked and maligned. And given that virtually no research into possible natural explanations for global warming has been performed, it is time for scientific objectivity and integrity to be restored to the field of global warming research. This Committee could, at a minimum, make a statement that encourages that goal.
To see Dr. Spencer's full testimony see:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=e12b56cb-4c7b-4c21-bd4a-7afbc4ee72f3
Weather happens?
Algore wept.
The denier movement seems to be growing. It must be stopped at all costs!
You know Spencer works for Rush don’t you.../sarc...
I’m surprised that his testimony wasn’t SHOUTED DOWN by all the Rat kool-aid drinkers.
True, Spencer doesn’t the same credentials as the music and sociology professors the UN included as “climate experts” in their panel findings but his opinion will just have to do I guess.
well duh! but do you really think that is going to stop all the greenies?
Humanity is so minute within the scope of the Universe.
And if they're so worried about "Our Lives" and if life is so precious, how can people like Gore and Obama...say..."Kill The Children"....It's a good thing??
THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL!!
Rush just played an audio clip of one of the vapid air-heads at the hearing attempting to denigrate Spencer’s testimony on the premise that he couldn’t be credible because Rush called him “the official meterologist of the EIB network”.
Does anyone think she’d say that James Hansen’s testimony couldn’t be credible because he gives campaign contributions to DemocRATS, uses stagecraft to mislead people in his congressional testimony, and was in cohoots with Enron, et.al., to hype the anthropogenic GW hoax?
Riiiight.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2048577/posts?page=13#13
The vapid airhead in question was Barbara Boxer.
Thanks for the name. There are so many of them in Congress, they’re impossible to keep track of.
No no no no....Spencer works for Big Oil....so does Rush....so do I.
No one expects the Environmental Inquisition!
This scientist is suggesting that common sense rule the day. Unfortunately, he's speaking to a Senate committee chaired by Democrats who wouldn't know common sense if it walked up and slapped them in the face.
Climate hearing ping
bttt
The primary evidence that CO2 and the greenhouse effect have anything to do with raising global temperature is missing entirely. It isn't there.
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
This is a short and easily understandable article showing the plain truth. The hinge pin that links global temperature to the greenhouse effect is missing. It is easily measurable and hundreds of probes have done so.
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