One of the great things about living in Maryland is that I was able to go into DC for lunch and sit in on the House Science Committee hearing today about the IPCC process. Representing the Borg was Michael “we will lose an average of 83 ft. of beach by 2018” Oppenheimer, and the entire Democratic contingent of Congressmen.
The highlight of the hearing was Dr. Daniel Botkin, who said that all thirty of Obama’s climate assessment claims were not supported by the papers they were supposed to be based on.
The lowlights were Oppenheimer trashing anyone who didn’t support his religion, and the Democrats who looked like rabbits in Tharn, and refused to speak to anyone on the panel besides Oppenheimer.
Thanks, Steven, for sharing the information on today’s hearing.
Official responses to the Climategate emails and documents suggest that leaders of the scientific community are bluntly dishonest and Standard Models* are simply code words for right, sacred, official, favored, unalterable, catholic , etc.
*Standard Models of nuclei, planets, their climates , stars, galaxies, the cosmos, etc.
Chairman’s heart-warming opening statement. 🙂
http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-%20SY-WState-S000244-20140529.pdf
GOOD GRIEF!
Have his staffers been reading WUWT and Real Science and Jo Nova???
Sure sounds like it.
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Some Republicans get it.
If that is for real, and the Republicans get some backbone, then Obumski might be in for a real fight (or a blue, – Aussie slang)! 😀
I missed the opening statement because I couldn’t find a parking spot. Next time I go in I will bring a bicycle.
You ecologist, you! Bet no one else bikes. 🙂
ecologistuse Conservationist to separate those who truly want to protect nature from those who support “Bat-chomping, bird-slicing Eco Crucifixes” aka wind turbines.Check if Gore is going to be there. You would not want to freeze to death. 😉
Then you can be as I want always to be, a Happy Wanderer:
“I love to go a-wandering, Along the mountain track, And as I go, I love to sing, My knapsack on my back. Chorus: Val-deri,Val-dera…”
Well, that’s the way I felt on a bicycle, when I wasn’t dodging blind drivers of motor vehicles.
Steve, did you have to attach the headgear?
Did anyone ask Oppenheimer of he thought tin foil hats might be a defense against AGW?
Did anyone ask him how much money he took for “consulting” for groups like 350 (or maybe the DNC)?
I’m putting in a shameless plug for the 9th Annual Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute on July 7, 8, and 9. It’s at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Cost is only $129, which includes some meals, and rooms are available for $80 a night through the conference web site.
Steve and Anthony Watts are both on a panel and the main speakers are an international who’s who list of skeptics.
This one
http://climateconference.heartland.org/
Yes! Hope to see some of you there.
I wish I had the money to attend. (Nasty comments muttered to self under breath)
Maybe they will have one in the near future that is within driving distance of NC area.
Husband asks HOW are we going to get their – answer hitch haflingers to wagonette….
Just more of blah blah blah, climate “sensitivity”, blah blah blah … when in FACT, there is no such thing as a “green house effect”.
People like Watts just perpetuate the lies and keep the circus going so they can profit from it. With any luck at all some of the other speakers will begin to show the sophistry of Watts and Co., and finally begin to expose the lies of the GHE. It is so easy to do, but it ends the conversation difinitively, and that is not what most of these people, especially Watts, want.
Do you know how a reflector works? Any kind, for starters, will do …
Well, I recommend the Roswell UFO Festival, in Roswell, New Mexico, I think also in early July, since I went there in 2007, and met many good, intelligent people (townfolk included, not just visitors).
83ft? I wonder if he realises there’s not enough ice/water on Earth that can reach the oceans to result in such a rise.
He belongs on this ship:
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8201751040/h381450C6/
His claim is that a 10 inch sea level rise will move beaches 83 ft (1000 in) inland. He is implying that typical beaches have a 1% grade. I can’t think of many that do, can you?
So I don’t keep up with all the liars in DC. Did the Committee hear from rational scientists or just from the borg?