Posted on 05/06/2010 9:19:19 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
This morning, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), ranking member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, will release a staff report on the scientific issues that tend to discredit the EPA’s endangerment finding for carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
The report’s release coincides with the opening of a committee hearing entitled “The Foundation of Climate Science.” During the hearing the committee will hear testimony from five experts — four defending the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its reports against the criticisms raised since the release of the Climategate files last November, and one, Christopher Monckton, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who is a noted skeptic (as well as a Pajamas Media contributor).
The report summarizes a number of revelations that, according to Rep Sensenbrenner’s staff, combine to call into question the scientific validity of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Many of these have been reported in Pajamas Media since our original report on the Climategate files.
The IPCC report might seem to be a secondary issue, however flawed it may be, because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supposed to base endangerment findings on well-accepted, peer-reviewed science. However, in the EPA’s regulatory announcement (released on April 24, 2009), the EPA itself noted that it “relies most heavily on the major assessment reports of both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). EPA took this approach rather than conducting a new assessment of the scientific literature.” [emphasis added]
read the complete article here
FYI
Looking for a report...not sure where it is.
The Foundation of Climate Science
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The Republican witness on the panel was Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
Testimony of The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Before Congress, 6 May 2010
Jim Sensensbrenner’s a good guy.
The Select Committee, in its letter inviting testimony for the present hearing, cites
various scientific bodies as having concluded that –
1. The global climate has warmed;
2. Human activities account for most of the warming since the mid-20th century;
3. Climate change is already causing a broad range of impacts in the United States;
4. The impacts of climate change are expected to grow in the coming decades.
The first statement requires heavy qualification and, since the second is wrong, the third
and fourth are without foundation and must fall.
The Select Committee has requested answers to the following questions:
1. What are the observed changes to the climate system?
Carbon dioxide concentration: In the Neoproterozoic Era, ~750 million years ago,
dolomitic rocks, containing ~40% CO2 bonded not only with calcium ions but also with
magnesium, were precipitated from the oceans worldwide by a reaction that could not
have occurred unless the atmospheric concentration of CO2 had been ~300,000 parts
per million by volume. Yet in that era equatorial glaciers came and went twice at sea
level.
Today, the concentration is ~773 times less, at ~388 ppmv: yet there are no equatorial
glaciers at sea level. If the warming effect of CO2 were anything like as great as the
vested-interest groups now seek to maintain, then, even after allowing for greater
surface albedo and 5% less solar radiation, those glaciers could not possibly have existed
(personal communication from Professor Ian Plimer, confirmed by on-site inspection of
dolomitic and tillite deposits at Arkaroola Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia).
Facts and truth mean nothing when the fascist scum stand to reap Trillions in the global cap and tax scam. It is already destroying business in Great Britian ... and Barry’s CCX in Chicago is bringing it home don’tchaknow! Yes, he is keeping his promise made five days before the election, to fundamentally transform America. Take a cream filled donut and toss it into a septic tank, and by golly you can transform it!
We USED to be taught this simple cycle of life in school.
This GoreBull crap has got to be the biggest and most insane scam ever perpetrated - and the perpetrators know it. They're laughing all the way to bank on the millions they're making off it.
Time to get out the RICCO Act and haul the perps off.
He and Inhofe are a FORCE!
Excellent....be sure and dowload the PDF linked at post #6.
It is just 4 pages ...I dropped the first few paragraphs above...
Printed it out to stuff in my liberal cousin’s face. But I know you can’t fix stupid, even with the truth.
Good.
I’ll look tomorrow for a report from Rep Sensenbrenner.
What's the matter, they couldn't find a second skeptic?
I would recommend Professor Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, and a former contributor to past IPCC reports, until he realized that the results were cooked for political exploitation.
I would be happy to provide his address if Congress is unable to manage finding him.
Of course, in view of the embarrassment of ineptitude, perhaps 4 against one is an even match in this case.
BUMP!!!
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