Committee on SCIENCE Hse

Note duplicate node: sci space & technol HSE (presumably senate version too?) Science, Space, and Technology Committee,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space,and_Technology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space,and_Technology</a>There are five subcommittees in the 115th Congress.<table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;">Subcommittee</th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;">Chair<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space,and_Technology#cite_note-subcommittee-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;">Ranking Member</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Energy" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Energy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weber" title="Randy Weber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Randy Weber</a> (R-TX)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Veasey" title="Marc Veasey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marc Veasey</a> (D-TX)</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Environment" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Environment</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Biggs" title="Andy Biggs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andy Biggs</a> (R-AZ)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Bonamici" title="Suzanne Bonamici" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Suzanne Bonamici</a> (D-OR)</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Oversight" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Oversight" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oversight</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_Lahood" class="mw-redirect" title="Darin Lahood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Darin Lahood</a> (R-IL)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Beyer" title="Don Beyer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Don Beyer</a> (D-VA)</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Research_and_Technology" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Research and Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Research and Technology</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Comstock" title="Barbara Comstock" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Comstock</a> (R-VA)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lipinski" title="Dan Lipinski" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dan Lipinski</a> (D-IL)</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Space" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Space" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Space</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Babin" title="Brian Babin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brian Babin</a> (R-TX)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Bera" title="Ami Bera" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ami Bera</a> (D-CA)</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Committee chairmen, 1959-present[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space,and_Technology&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Committee chairmen, 1959-present" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Chairmen since 1959.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space,and_Technology#cite_note-history-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A");"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Brooks" title="Overton Brooks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Overton Brooks</a>, 1959–1961</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P.Miller" class="mw-redirect" title="George P. Miller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George P. Miller</a>, 1961–1973</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_E.Teague" title="Olin E. Teague" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Olin E. Teague</a>, 1973–1978</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Fuqua" title="Don Fuqua" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Don Fuqua</a>, 1979–1987</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A.Roe" title="Robert A. Roe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert A. Roe</a>, 1987–1991</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="George Brown, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Brown, Jr.</a>, 1991–1995</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_Walker" title="Robert Smith Walker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert S. Walker</a>, 1995–1997</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sensenbrenner" title="Jim Sensenbrenner" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Sensenbrenner</a>, 1997–2001</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Boehlert" title="Sherwood Boehlert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sherwood Boehlert</a>, 2001–2007</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Gordon" title="Bart Gordon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bart Gordon</a>, 2007–2011</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hall" title="Ralph Hall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ralph Hall</a>, 2011–2013</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S.Smith" title="Lamar S. Smith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lamar Smith</a>, 2013–present</li></ul><div>http://www.ecowatch.com/lamar-smith-climate-science-2336435692.html</div><div><div id="Post09000110000000" class="row-wrapper clearfix " style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: -12px; margin-left: -12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="row px20" style="margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: -40px;"><div id="Post090001100000000" class="col sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 s12 m12 l12" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 40px; float: left; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; width: 836.922px; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto;"><div id="Post0900011000000000" class="post-partial articlesplash-custom" style="margin-bottom: 40px; overflow: visible !important;"><div class="post-splash-custom sm-mb-1 quality-HD" data-attr-style_post-date-text_all_default_position="absolute" data-attr-style_post-headline-wrapper_all_default_padding="10px 12px" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_line-height="22px" data-attr-layout_section="top" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_margin="0 12px 12px" data-attr-style_post-headline_tablet_default_font-weight="700" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_float="right" data-attr-id="Post0900011000000000" data-attr-layout_date="top" data-attr-layout_author="top" data-attr-layout_headline="bottom" data-attr-style_post-authors-name_all_default_font-weight="700" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_font-size="14px" data-attr-layout_mobile_image_crop="1x1" data-attr-style_post-headline_tablet_default_font-size="14px" data-attr-style_post-authors-name_all_default_line-height="1" data-attr-style_post-date-text_all_default_font-size="11px" data-attr-style_post-authors-avatar_all_default_width="30px" data-attr-style_post-headline-wrapper_all_default_margin="0" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_font-weight="500" data-attr-style_post-authors-name_all_default_vertical-align="top" data-attr-style_post-body_all_default_background="none" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_font-family="Georgia" data-attr-style_post-headline_tablet_default_line-height="18px" data-attr-format="splash-custom" data-attr-layout_all_image_crop="3x2" data-attr-style_post-headline_mobile_default_line-height="18px" data-attr-style_post-authors-container_all_default_margin="0 12px" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_padding="5px 0" data-attr-style_post-authors-avatar_all_default_height="30px" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_font-weight="700" data-attr-style_post-date-text_all_default_top="16px" data-attr-style_post-authors-name_all_default_font-size="14px" data-attr-style_post-element_all_default_background-color="rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_color="rgba(82, 149, 70, 1)" data-attr-style_post-headline_mobile_default_font-size="14px" data-attr-data-rm-device-crops="true" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_font-size="18px" data-attr-style_post-headline_mobile_default_font-family="Helvetica" data-attr-style_post-headline_mobile_default_font-weight="700" data-attr-all_element_order="section,badges,author,date,headline,subheadline,badges_sponsored,photo_credit,body,snark_line,post_shares" data-attr-style_post-date-text_all_default_color="rgba(164, 162, 160, 1)" data-attr-style_post-date-text_all_default_left="49px" data-attr-style_post-section_all_default_display="inline-block" data-attr-layout_all_date_format="%b. %d, %Y %I:%M%p EST" data-attr-style_post-headline_tablet_default_font-family="Helvetica" style="position: relative;"><div class="row px10" style="margin-bottom: -40px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -10px; overflow: hidden;"><div id="col-center" class="col sm-mb-1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 40px; float: left; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; width: 816.922px;"><div class="headline-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 12px;"><div class="headline" style="position: relative; line-height: 22px;">Climate Deniers' Big Day on Capitol Hill</div><div class="headline" style="position: relative; line-height: 22px;">
</div><div class="headline" style="position: relative; line-height: 22px;">No one thought that Lamar "<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00001811&cycle=Career" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">my career has been funded by fossil fuels</a>" Smith was going to put on an unbiased hearing on climate science. After all, the minority Democrats on Smith's House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology published a report this month, <a href="http://democrats.science.house.gov/committee-report/much-ado-about-nothing%E2%80%9D-minority-review-majority%E2%80%99s-climate-science-investigation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Much Ado About Nothing</a>, which details Smith's "crusade to attempt to undermine and invalidate" Tom Karl's pause-buster study. (Yet Smith still <a href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/847098191816339456" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">can't get NOAA's name right</a>)!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="Post09000110000001" class="post-partial articlebody" style="margin-bottom: 40px; overflow: visible !important;"><div class="article-body js-expandable sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 js-update-url selectionShareable expanded" data-url="http://www.ecowatch.com/lamar-smith-climate-science-2336435692.html" data-headline="Climate Deniers' Big Day on Capitol Hill" data-elid="2336435692"><div class="article-description" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;">Although little was said about Karl, Wednesday's House Science Committee hearing with Drs. <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/open-season-climate-scientists-2259332495.html" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Michael Mann</a>, John Christy, Judith Curry and Roger Pielke Jr. was a quite a circus. Which is exactly why someone who's been through Smith's nonsense, Dr. David Titley, wrote for the Washington Post that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/03/28/credible-climate-scientists-need-to-boycott-biased-congressional-hearings/?asdasdasdasdasd&utm_term=.47001d3d5368" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">scientists should boycott</a> these biased hearings.That would be nice, if that meant that Smith would stop holding them. But since he shows no sign of slowing <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/01/house-science-committee-lamar-smith-climate-change-exxon" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">his inquisition</a>, someone needs to show up to set the record straight and push back on all the denial packed into the hearing like so many clowns in a tiny car.And that's exactly what Dr. Mann did, successfully walking the tight-rope between correcting other witnesses and coming off as a jerk. Most notably and most clearly getting under Smith's skin, Mann cited a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/lamar-smith-unbound-lays-out-political-strategy-climate-doubters-conference" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">recent Science Magazine article </a>describing Smith's comments at the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/27/1647646/-Highlights-from-the-Lowlifes-at-Heartland-s-Climate-Conference" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Heartland conference</a>. Mann read the killer quote about how Smith "acknowledged that the committee is now a tool to advance his political agenda rather than a forum to examine important issues facing the U.S. research community."In response, Lamar Smith, the esteemed media critic who cited the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/21/1636179/-Tricked-by-a-Rose-on-the-Page-Smith-Takes-Up-Tabloid-Conspiracy-Crusade" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Daily Mail's bogus Bates story</a>, who has written <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/rep-lamar-smith-r-tx/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">for Breitbart</a> and said that people should get their <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/lamar-smith-donald-trump-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">news directly from Trump</a>, claimed that Science Magazine is "not known as an objective magazine." As <a href="https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/847106310625804288" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Emily Atkin of the New Republic aptly put it</a>, "The fact that the chairman of the House Science committee doesn't consider that source 'objective' is ACTUALLY MIND BLOWING."Smith, with pie on his face, also demonstrated his media savvy by citing the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/15/1538935/-WSJ-Ads-Call-Out-WSJ-s-Climate-Denial" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">never-correct</a> editorial page of the <a href="http://climatefeedback.org/wall-street-journal-articles-on-2016-heat-record-send-contradicting-messages/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Wall Street Journal on heat records</a>. This opinion is about as solid as cotton candy and has been contradicted by the paper's own reporting.[img]Speaking of dumb Wall Street Journal opinions, Mann also did a nice job of calling out Pielke's hypocrisy for <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/06/1607848/-Pielke-Pouts-in-WSJ-Conveniently-Forgets-To-Mention-His-Own-Guilt" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">whining in the Journal</a> about being harassed, after <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/28/fivethirtyeight-climate-change-dispute_n_5049279.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">sending threatening letters</a> to Mann and Kevin Trenberth's bosses when they criticized his awful FiveThirtyEight piece that <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mit-climate-scientist-responds-on-disaster-costs-and-climate-change/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">needed correction</a>.Also needing correction was John Christy, who trotted out his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/19/republicans-favorite-climate-chart-has-some-serious-problems" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">error-laden graph</a> of models and observations. Again, Mann highlighted the foolishness of his fellow witnesses by pointing out how others have corrected Christy many times on the satellite record vs. the thermometer record. And more importantly, he <a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0333.1" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">cited the recent research</a> that totally debunks Christy's <a href="https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/847117098199375872" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">false contention</a> that models overestimate warming.And then there's Judith Curry who, true to form, was there to talk about uncertainty (<a href="https://twitter.com/CColose/status/847120801790877696" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">inappropriately</a>). Again Mann was prepared, pointing out that uncertainty is actually a <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-climate-uncertainty-is-no-excuse-for-doing-nothing-32924" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">reason to take stronger action sooner</a>. Uncertainty cuts both ways: while Curry and the GOP would have you believe maybe warming won't be so bad, it could actually be much worse than we fear.Curry also bristled at being referred to as a "<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-denier" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate science denier</a>" in Mann's written testimony. That's silly: She's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/27/1625962/-Trump-Advances-Doomsday-Clock-and-The-Curious-Case-of-Curry-s-Curiae-with-Kochs" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">teamed up with the Kochs</a>, questioned the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/15/1599667/-Curry-Denies-Clear-and-Present-Endangerment-Calls-UNFCCC-Hoaxsters" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">validity of the endangerment finding</a> and said in her opening statement that it's time to "<a href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/847093211587858432" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">make the debate about climate change great again</a>." So it is safe to say that "<a href="https://twitter.com/SarahEMyhre/status/847118948696915969" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Judith Curry is absolutely a climate denier</a>."And she proved it in the hearing, denying the science and claiming we don't know how much is human versus natural. In 2014, NASA's <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/08/ipcc-attribution-statements-redux-a-response-to-judith-curry/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Gavin Schmidt laid out the case for Curry</a> that our best estimate is that humans are causing 110 percent of warming. (It's more than 100 percent because natural forces and particulate pollution cause cooling, which CO2 is overcoming to cause warming).Curry also questioned <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ocean-acidification" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">ocean acidification</a> science, in a way that Brian Kahn noted "<a href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/847121342583459841" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">is way out of step with most ocean scientists</a>" that he's talked with.Other odds and ends that made an appearance include the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/784572-api-global-climate-science-communications-plan.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">1998 documents</a> showing <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/us/industrial-group-plans-to-battle-climate-treaty.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Big Oil's plan</a> to inject uncertainty into the climate debate, the long-<a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">debunked 70s cooling myth</a> and Smith's tired denial of the <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">consensus</a>.So like any good circus, there were plenty of clowns, people lion, tired grr-causing myths and bear-ly believable statements.Oh my.Here's the full hearing:</div></div></div></div></div>====---<h3>The House “Science” Committee</h3>

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is quickly

becoming one of the most inaccurately named entities in Washington. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2016/02/lamar-smith-noaa-search-terms">For the past</a> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/worst-science-denial-2014">several years</a>, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/10/lamar-smith-climate-science-investigation-nsf">used his position</a> as chair of the committee to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/12/video-anti-science-nonsense-climate-vaccines">harass scientists</a>

through congressional investigations. He’s even accused researchers at

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of having “altered

historic climate data to get politically correct results” about global

warming. As <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2016/02/lamar-smith-noaa-search-terms">Mother Jones explained in February</a>,

“Smith is determined to get to the bottom of what he sees as an

insidious plot by NOAA to falsify research. His original subpoena for

internal communications, issued last October, has been followed by a <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/26/global_warming_lamar_smith_wants_to_tie_noaa_in_knots.html">series of letters</a>

to Obama administration officials in NOAA and other agencies demanding

information and expressing frustration that NOAA has not been

sufficiently forthcoming.”

Fast-forward to December 2016, when someone working for Smith decided

to use the committee Twitter account to promote an article from

Breitbart News titled “<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/30/global-temperatures-plunge-icy-silence-climate-alarmists/">Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists.</a>”

(Breitbart is the far-right website that was formerly run by chief

Trump strategist Steve Bannon. In addition to climate denial, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news">Bannon has said</a> the site is “the platform for the alt-right,” a movement that is <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist" target="_blank">closely tied</a> to white nationalism.)

Unsurprisingly, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-9-best-reactions-to-the-house-science-committees-breitbart-tweet/">actual scientists</a> weren’t pleased.
6/16 huffpo tags:<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/house-science-committee/">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/house-science-committee/</a>Survival of the UnfitRaymond S. Bradley | Posted 12.10.2015 | PoliticsRead More: House Science Committee, Climate Change Denial, Hypocrisy, Politics NewsRaymond S. BradleyU.S. science and technology is not well-served when scientists are harassed by unqualified bullies in Congress.
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'Green News Report' - November 19, 2015Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.19.2015 | GreenRead More: 2016 Election, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Coal, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Global Warming Deniers, Green News, Green News Report, Natural Gas, Politics, Video, Republicans, Lamar Smith, House Science Committee, Subsidies, g20, Nasa, Noaa, Extreme Weather, El Nino, Canada, Justin Trudeau, Northern Gateway Pipeline, First Nations, British Columbia, David Roberts, Green NewsBrad Friedman and Desi DoyenThe Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: House Republicans double-down in their ongoing war against climate scient...
<div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">The latest tirade from Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (his 11/13 letter to Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce) sheds light on the real reason for his demand that NOAA employees make available all email correspondence about their recent study on global warming.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">In their extensive analysis of global climate data, published in Science, Tom Karl (Director of NOAA’s Center for Environmental Information) and his team found that small corrections were required to some of the data. Such minor adjustments have been made almost continuously since the first global temperature data set was produced by the U.S. Department of Energy more than 30 years ago, so there is nothing unusual about this.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">NASA, NOAA, the UK Hadley Center and the Japanese Meteorological Agency continually check data sources, correct any errors that they may find and make the latest versions of their data available to the public. In other words, they do what they are supposed to do, taking responsibility for the most reliable data sets.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">So, the study by Karl et al was nothing more than one of many research papers that have periodically been published, providing an updated record about global temperature. What’s not to like? Why has the House Committee issued subpoenas to Tom Karl and his colleagues, demanding all email correspondence about their work?</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">Well, the big mistake NOAA apparently made was that it “...used Twitter to spread the news about the Karl study”. OMG! They tweeted the results! They actually tried to communicate with the taxpayers who funded the research!</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">The Science Committee Chairman is clearly outraged, and in his letter to the Secretary of Commerce, he demands to know why the results weren’t just “...quietly published in a scientific journal”. He goes on, “This type of public relations effort seems more suited to an advertising campaign than a federal agency’s sober report on the findings of a publicly-funded study”.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 730px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">It would be easy to dismiss this puerile temper tantrum as nothing more than a reflection of how disconnected Chairman Smith is from the rest of the universe, a rather sad position for somebody who heads up a committee that has both Space and Technology in its portfolio. Yet, Representative Smith does have a Twitter account and frequently sends out tweets about his own amazing accomplishments, making sure that his activities are not “quietly published”. Indeed, some might say that his tweets are more akin to an advertising campaign than sober reports from a publicly-funded federal employee... but that would be churlish. No doubt, he is simply doing his job, informing the public about his committee’s activities. Just like those folks at NOAA...</div><div class="follow-author" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Follow Raymond S. Bradley on Twitter:</div>
Tweet This and Risk a SubpoenaRaymond S. Bradley | Posted 11.17.2015 | GreenRead More: House Science Committee, Lamar Smith, Green NewsRaymond S. BradleyThe latest tirade from Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology sheds light on the real reason for his demand that NOAA employees make available all email correspondence about their recent study on global warming.
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The House Committee On Science And IntimidationRaymond S. Bradley | Posted 11.05.2015 | PoliticsRead More: House Science Committee, Global Warming, Political Intimidation, Politics NewsRaymond S. BradleyPolitical intimidation to suppress scientific studies poses a grave danger to any society. Ironically, despite all the efforts of the Congressional Luddites, it is becoming abundantly clear to all Americans that global warming is an undeniable fact, and something that we need to deal with.
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Captain Pope on the TitanicJeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.18.2015 | PoliticsRead More: Pope Francis, Climate Change, Pope Francis Encyclical, James Inhofe, Lamar Smith, House, Senate, House Science Committee, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Pope John Paul Xxiii, Richard Dawkins, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Genesis, Politics NewsJeff SchweitzerThe Pope, by the way, is not bringing religion to the debate; he is simply acknowledging that the science is overwhelming and compelling, and given that, there is a moral obligation to act.
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Kate SheppardThis Is What Happens When You Elect Climate Change DeniersHuffingtonPost.com | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.07.2015 | PoliticsRead More: House Science Committee, Lamar Smith, Climate Change, Climate Science, House, Climate Change Denial, Climate Research, Nasa, Budget, Science, American Geophysical Union, Generation Change, Politics News
WASHINGTON -- Scientists are balking at major cuts to NASA's budget that the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved last week, cuts...
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Federal Dysfunction Continues to Underfund Science and InfrastructureSteven Cohen | Posted 05.04.2016 | GreenRead More: Environmental Policy, Sustainability, Infrastructure, Research, House Science Committee, Tesla, Science, Green NewsSteven CohenFunding ports and scientific research should be ideologically neutral pieces of consensus in American politics. But in the toxic environment of the American Congress we can't even do the easy stuff.
Read Whole Story.from lamar smith:<h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 26px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 36px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">House Science Chair Says Latest Climate Report Is 'Clearly Biased,' But He Only Read The Summary</h1><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, hasn't read the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/un-climate-change-report_n_6089392.html" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">latest report</a> from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but he says he knows enough to conclude that “most of the predictions have been wrong," he told Bloomberg TV on Friday.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Congressman, it’s science. It’s 800 scientists," Bloomberg host Cory Johnson interrupted. "It’s not some random guy making a prediction.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“There are a lot of other scientists who disagree," said the Texas Republican. "For example, we’ve now had close to 18 years of no global warming even though carbon dioxide emissions have increased 25 percent over the last 18 years. Nobody can explain that."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Smith told Johnson he had not read the IPCC report. “I only read summaries,” he said, and described the report authors as “clearly biased.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">near unanimity among active climate scientists</a> that climate change is happening and that humans are causing it. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000165/abstract" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Several studies</a> have <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/860.summary?rss=1" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also debunked</a> the idea that climate change isn't happening because surface air temperatures have risen more slowly since the 1990s. Rising greenhouse gas emissions mean a stronger greenhouse effect and the Earth continues to absorb more energy than it radiates back into space. This energy imbalance manifests itself in other ways, such as ocean warming and glacial melting.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Globally, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/24/warmest-years-record-un-global-warming" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 of the 14 warmest years on record</a> have occurred in the 21st century. And there is a good chance that <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/2014-on-track-to-be-warmest-year-on-record-18041" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2014 may set the record</a> as the warmest year since record keeping began in 1880."There’s still no explanation and no one can tell me yet what percentage of so-called climate change is due to human activity [and] what percentage is due to natural trends, natural cycles," Smith said. But in its <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_SPM.pdf" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">latest report</a>, the IPCC states with 95 percent confidence that it is "extremely likely" that "more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010" was caused by human activities.Despite this overwhelming evidence from the most respected climate researchers, Rep. Smith says, "We don’t know enough yet to make decisions that are going to hurt our economy or hurt the American people ... Let’s continue to gather the facts, make sure the science is correct."Smith, however, has worked to undermine climate science in his position as chairman of the committee.He's <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/10/lamar-smith-climate-science-investigation-nsf" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">investigated National Science Foundation grants</a> to researchers working on climate change on the premise that those grants aren't in the "national interest."Nor does he seem particularly interested in finding out more about climate science. His committee has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/congress-climate-change-aliens_n_5372168.html" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">held more hearings on aliens</a> than they have on climate science in the 113th Congress.[huffpoRep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has a long <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lamar-smith-overheated-rhetoric-on-climate-change-hurts-the-economy/2013/05/19/32cb6d94-bda4-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html" target="hplink" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: inherit;">track record of climate change denial</a>. And under his leadership, the committee has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/house-hearing-aliens_n_4379175.html" target="hplink" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="line-height: 27px; box-sizing: inherit;">spent more time</a> holding hearings on the existence of extraterrestrial life than it has examining climate science or the repercussions of global climate change.<div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">The House and Senate have held a combined 19 hearings on space exploration during the 113th Congress, according to a report Wednesday in the <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/the-house-science-committee-has-held-more-hearings-on-aliens-than-on-climate-change-20140521" target="hplink" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">National Journal</a>. Smith’s committee alone has organized 15 of those hearings, includingthree that focused on discovering alien life.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, Smith’s committee has held just two hearings dedicated to climate change.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">Several House committees are responsible for addressing U.S. energy and environmental issues. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has held only one hearing on climate change, while the House Natural Resources Committee has yet to take up the issue in the 113th Congress.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">Numerous sitting members of the House Science Committee have expressed views rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change. Committee member James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) has gone so far as to call climate change a “massive international scientific fraud” and evidence of “scientific fascism,” while Paul Broun (R-Ga.), a young Earth creationist, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/house-hearing-aliens_n_4379175.html" target="hplink" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">believes the Earth</a> was “created in six days as we know them.”</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">“You could argue that it makes sense for the House Science Committee to rigorously discuss outer space — after all, it’s right there in the committee’s name,”<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/the-house-science-committee-has-held-more-hearings-on-aliens-than-on-climate-change-20140521" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">wrote The National Journal’s Emma Roller</a>, who tallied up the hearing topics. “But you could also argue that when the committee you chair has the word ‘science’ in its name, you may want to discuss the premier scientific debate that’s going on.”</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">Sometimes, however, the environment comes up in the context of extraterrestrial life. At the House Science Committee’s latest hearing on aliens, held on Wednesday, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Director Dan Werthimer noted that while the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is nearly certain, “If we discover that we are alone, we’d better take really good care of life on this planet.”</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">While much of the congressional climate change denial <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/al-gore-republicans_n_5313028.html" target="hplink" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">happens in the House</a>, the Democrat-led Senate has also failed to exhibit substantial interest in the issue.</div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;">The Senate Commerce Science and Space Subcommittee has held four hearings on space, but only one on climate change. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hasn’t addressed the topic since 2012. The Environment and Public Works Committee has held three hearings on climate change this Congress.</div>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/congress-climate-change-aliens_n_5372168.html]</div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/lamar-smith-climate-change-denial_n_6123638.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/lamar-smith-climate-change-denial_n_6123638.html</a> ==

some befuddlement at anti sci ppl on this com:Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) and former representative Todd Akin (R-MO) have more in common than a breathtaking lack of knowledge of and political tact on the subject of rape. They are also former colleagues on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.According to a <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">2009 Pew Poll</a>, only 6 percent of scientists identified themselves as Republicans — and it’s easy to see why. Although Gingrey and Akin have moved on, many of the Republican congressmen in charge of setting the nation’s scientific agenda are openly hostile to overwhelmingly accepted scientific theories.Here are five proudly anti-science members of the House Science Committee:
<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-anti-science-congressmen-on-the-house-science-committee/2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">Continue reading</a>1 lamar Smith, the current chair of the committee, has publicly <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/28/1248751/rep-lamar-smith-who-criticized-the-idea-of-human-made-global-warming-set-to-be-chair-of-house-science-panel/" target="blank" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">criticized </a>scientists and journalists who are “determined to advance the idea of human-made global warming,” and he has backed up his rhetoric with a hard line voting record. During his 25-year tenure in Congress, Smith has voted to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, opposed tax credits for renewable energy and raising fuel efficiency standards and rejected the Kyoto Protocol.As ThinkProgress points out, Smith has a powerful incentive to deny the existence of climate change: throughout his career, Smith has received $500,000 from the oil and gas industry.
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<a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-anti-science-congressmen-on-the-house-science-committee/">http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-anti-science-congressmen-on-the-house-science-committee/</a>2 The Tea Party-backed Broun, who has served on the Science Committee since 2007, appears to believe that scientists are literally tools of the devil. In an October speech at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet, <a href="http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/rep-paul-broun-r-ga-evolution-big-bang-lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">Broun declared</a>, “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.”“And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior,” he added.In the same speech, Broun claimed “I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”
<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-anti-science-congressmen-on-the-house-science-committee/4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">Continue reading</a>3 Sensenbrenner is a well-known climate change truther who has asserted that Earth has been cooling over the past 10 years, that Mars has been warming at a similar rate to Earth, and that global warming will help crop yields go up, making it “easier to feed 7 billion people,” among other <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/skepticquotes.php?s=33" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">flagrant falsehoods.</a>Sensenbrenner also rejects the fact that genetics influence weight, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DtQ0olwnQ4AC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=jim+sensenbrenner+%22Look+in+the+mirror+because+you+are+the+one+to+blame.&source=bl&ots=u8SmAMGxdB&sig=rDe6xajk5N47Z5Mmn8xxBb2swYI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NGT0UOjoOuWA0AGIlICwAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=jim%20sensenbrenner%20%22Look%20in%20the%20mirror%20because%20you%20are%20the%20one%20to%20blame.&f=false" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">telling</a> the obese to “Look in the mirror because you are the one to blame.” Along the same hypocritical lines, Sensenbrenner opposed First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” anti-obesity campaign due to her “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/jim-sensenbrenner-michelle-obama_n_1163711.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">large posterior.</a>”
<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-anti-science-congressmen-on-the-house-science-committee/5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">Continue reading</a>4 Rohrabacher is arguably Congress’ <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/skepticquotes.php?s=34" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">least informed member</a> when it comes to climate science, strenuously arguing that climate change and global warming are either a hoax or a massive conspiracy perpetrated by scientists and liberals.Most notably, Rohrabacher has claimed that “CO2 is irrelevant,” “polar bears are not becoming extinct,” and that “<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/02/08/v-print/15581/little-doubt-on-cause-of-global.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">dinosaur flatulence</a>” may have caused past climate changes.

=<a href="http://science.house.gov/">http://science.house.gov/</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-energy-and-environment">http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-energy-and-environment</a>2015Republican MembersRandy Weber (R-Texas), ChairDana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas)Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.)Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)Steve Knight (R-Calif.), Vice Chair  Barbara Comstock (R-Va.)Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) ---Democrat MembersAlan Grayson (D-Fla.), Ranking MemberEric Swalwell (D-Calif.)Marc Veasey (D-Texas)Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.)Katherine Clark (D-Mass.)Ed Perlmutter (D-Col.)
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</div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h1 id="page-title-sm" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Subcommittee on Environment Hearing - Reality Check Part II: The Impact of EPA’s Proposed Ozone Standards on Rural America</h1><div id="inner-content" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="node-1682" class="node node-hearing clearfix" about="/hearing/subcommittee-environment-hearing-reality-check-part-ii-impact-epa-s-proposed-ozone-standards" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="sub-loc-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Environment</a> | 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 | Apr 29, 2015 2:00pm</div><div class="divide-ft" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(209, 206, 201); line-height: 0;"><div class="list-item featured-list-item" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reality Check Part II: The Impact of EPA’s Proposed Ozone Standards on Rural America<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY18-20150429-SD001.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hearing Charter</a></div></div></div></div><div id="opening-statements" class="body-custom" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 class="subhead" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">
</h2></div><div id="witness-list" class="body-custom" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field field-name-field-witnesses field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY18-TTF-THiett-20150429.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[Truth in Testimony]</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h1 id="page-title-sm" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joint Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Environment Hearing - Destruction of Records at EPA – When Records Must Be Kept</h1><div id="inner-content" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="node-1658" class="node node-hearing clearfix" about="/hearing/joint-subcommittee-oversight-and-subcommittee-environment-hearing-destruction-records-epa" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="sub-loc-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Environment</a>, <a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-investigations-and-oversight" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Oversight</a> | 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 | Mar 26, 2015 10:00am</div><div class="divide-ft" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(209, 206, 201);"><div class="list-item featured-list-item" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Destruction of Records at EPA – When Records Must Be Kept<div id="opening-statements" class="body-custom" style="line-height: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="subhead" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">Opening Statements</h2><div class="field field-name-field-opening-statements field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-S000583-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-L000583-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.)</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-B001283-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Environment Subcommittee Chairman Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.)</a> </div></div></div></div><div id="witness-list" class="body-custom" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 class="subhead" style="line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Witnesses</h2><div class="field field-name-field-witnesses field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-PWester-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mr. Paul M. Wester, Jr.</a>, Chief Records Officer, National Archives and Records Administration<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-TTF-PWester-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[Truth in Testimony] </a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-KChristensen-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mr. Kevin Christensen</a>, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Office of Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-TTF-KChristensen-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[Truth in Testimony]</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-DSchnare-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. David Schnare</a>, Former Sr. Attorney, EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; Director, Free-Market Environmental Law Clinic; Director, Center for Environmental Stewardship, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy; General Counsel, Energy & Environment Legal Institute<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-DSchnare-20150326.pdf">http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-WState-DSchnare-20150326.pdf</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY21-TTF-DSchnare-20150326.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[Truth in Testimony]</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 id="page-title-sm" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0.02em;">Subcommittee on Energy and Subcommittee on Environment Joint Hearing - Science of Capture and Storage: Understanding EPA’s Carbon Rules</h1><div id="inner-content" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="node-1372" class="node node-hearing clearfix" about="/hearing/subcommittee-energy-and-subcommittee-environment-joint-hearing-science-capture-and-storage" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="sub-loc-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Environment</a>, <a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-energy-and-environment" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Energy</a> | 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 | Mar 12, 2014 10:00am</div></div></div></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 id="page-title-sm" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0.02em;">Environment Subcommittee Hearing - Ensuring Open Science at EPA</h1><div id="inner-content" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="node-1354" class="node node-hearing clearfix" about="/hearing/environment-subcommittee-hearing-ensuring-open-science-epa" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="sub-loc-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subcommittee on Environment</a> | 2318 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 | Feb 11, 2014 10:00am</div><div class="divide-ft" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(209, 206, 201); line-height: 0;"><div class="list-item featured-list-item" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ensuring Open Science at EPA<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/Data%20Access%20Hearing%20Charter.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hearing Charter</a></div></div></div></div><div id="opening-statements" class="body-custom" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 class="subhead" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">Opening Statements</h2><div class="field field-name-field-opening-statements field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-%20SY-WState-S000244-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)</a></div></div></div></div><div id="witness-list" class="body-custom" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;"><h2 class="subhead" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">Witnesses</h2><div class="field field-name-field-witnesses field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-WState-JGraham-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Honorable John Graham,</a> Dean, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-TTF-JGraham-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Truth in Testimony</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-WState-LCox-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Louis Anthony Cox, Jr.,</a> Chief Sciences Officer, Next Health Technologies, Clinical Professor, Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado Health Sciences Center, and President, Cox Associates <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-TTF-LCox-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Truth in Testimony</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-WState-ESilbergeld-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Ellen Silbergeld,</a> Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-TTF-ESilbergeld-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Truth in Testimony</a><a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-WState-RKeating-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mr. Raymond Keating, </a>Chief Economist, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-TTF-RKeating-20140211.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Truth in Testimony</a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=
<div class="divide-ft" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(209, 206, 201); line-height: 0;"><div class="list-item featured-list-item" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bakken Petroleum: The Substance of Energy Independence</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/highlight/house-science-committee-more-worried-about-aliens-than-climate-change/2/153 on seti, lamarr smith 2 on GW =<a href="http://www.alternet.org/print/speakeasy/tikkundaily/environmental-justice-and-science-denial">http://www.alternet.org/print/speakeasy/tikkundaily/environmental-justice-and-science-denial</a>The White House recently released its <a data-mce="" href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights" target="blank">National Climate Assessment</a> [4] that reported our global climate is, in fact, changing, and this is due primarily to human activity, in particular, the burning of fossil fuels. The Assessment investigated approximately 12,000 professional scientific journal papers on the topic of global climate change, and discovered that in the articles expressing a position on global warming, 97 percent fully authenticated both the reality of global warming and the certainty that humans are the cause.Additional studies released since the White House report signaled the beginning of the depletion and ultimate total collapse of glaciers in Antarctica, which can continue to raise worldwide sea levels an additional 4 feet. This depletion is now irreversible.What seems clear to the scientific community seems like science fiction to many key politicians, including Lamar Smith (R-TX),paradoxically the Chair of the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who has been a perennial skeptic of human-produced climate change. He stated on the floor of the <a data-mce="" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/28/1248751/rep-lamar-smith-who-criticized-the-idea-of-human-made-global-warming-set-to-be-chair-of-house-science-panel/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">House</a>[5]:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We now know that prominent scientists were so determined to advance the idea of human-made global warming that they worked together to hide contradictory temperature data."</blockquote>He quoted no sources, and his accusations were later <a data-mce="" href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/CRU-tampered-temperature-data.htm" target="blank">proven</a> [6] false.Previous Chair of the Committee, Representative Ralph Hall (R-TX) <a data-mce="" href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/12/ralph-hall-speaks-out-on-climate.html" target="blank">asserted</a> [7] that he does not have concerns about global warming, but, rather, he is "really more fearful of freezing," even though, he mentioned, "I don't have any science to prove that." He went even further by stating that he did not "think we can control what God controls."Many on the anti-science political and theocratic Right (mis)quote scripture to justify human exploitation of the planet. For example, Republican presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum, <a data-mce="" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/santorum-says-presidents-agenda-is-based-on-a-phony-theology/" target="blank">questioned</a> [8] Barack Obama's "theology" in an Ohio campaign stop on February 18, 2012 by asserting that Obama believes in "some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology."The next day, when asked to explain his remarks on the CBS news program "<a data-mce="" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-february-19-2012/" target="blank">Face the Nation</a> [9]" by moderator Bob Schieffer, Santorum responded that he was referring to "the radical environmentalists," and by implication, placed Obama in this category. Santorum attacked the notion that "man is here to serve the Earth," which he argued "is a phony ideal." Santorum countered that idea, stating "We're not here to serve the Earth. The Earth is not the objective. Man is the objective. I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside-down."In yet another ill-conceived and executed Christian crusade, Santorum, with his publicly expressed literal biblical perspective, conjures up such passages as Genesis 1:26, which states:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'"Also, Genesis 1:28: "God blessed [humans] and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.'"And, Genesis 9: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.'"</blockquote>And Santorum is certainly not alone among his Republican colleagues and electorate. <a data-mce="" href="http://www.people-press.org/2008/05/08/a-deeper-partisan-divide-over-global-warming/" target="blank">A 2008 study</a> [10] by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, "A Deeper Partisan Divide over Global Warming," found that 58 percent of respondents who identified as Democrats and 50 percent of Independents believed that global warming is mostly caused by human activity, while only 27 percent of Republicans believed this.Among Democrats, those with higher educational levels - 75 percent with college degrees compared with 52 percent with less education - expressed the view that solid evidence has shown human activity largely as the cause of global warming. Opposed to the Democrats, however, educational levels of Republicans resulted in an inverse relationship in trusting the scientific evidence with only 19 percent of Republican college graduates compared with 31 percent with less education believing in the human connection to climate change.Pew's <a data-mce="" href="http://www.people-press.org/2013/11/01/gop-deeply-divided-over-climate-change/" target="blank">updated</a> [11] report in 2013 found that overall 67 percent of U.S. residents believe global warming is happening, but only 25 percent of Tea Party Republicans believe this.....==

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.57142857142857; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is sponsored by Rep. Jim Bridenstine, a Republican from Oklahoma, who said the recent devastation of extreme weather in his state — including the tragic<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/making-sense-of-the-moore-tornado-in-a-climate-context-16021" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Moore tornadoes</a> and a <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ongoing-coverage-of-historic-drought-in-us/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">crippling drought</a> — prompted him to push for better forecasting tools.

Recent severe events such as<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ongoing-coverage-of-historic-hurricane-sandy-15184" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Hurricane Sandy</a> have<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/storms-highlight-flaws-in-us-weather-forecasting-model-15744" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">highlighted deficiencies in the current top U.S. weather model</a>, known as the Global Forecast System, but many in the weather and climate community argue that narrowing the agency’s focus would be counter-productive because climate science research and weather modeling work hand-in-hand to understand what the weather might have in store for us at various time scales.

NOAA has objected to the bill because it draws rigid lines between those two priorities and also leaves out other key areas entirely, such as social science research about effectively communicating severe weather warnings.

The bill, known as the “<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d113:2:./temp/_{bdXrKp:@@@C|/home/LegislativeData.php|}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Weather Forecasting Improvement Act</a>,” was the subject of two hearings in the <a href="https://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">House Science Subcommittee on the Environment</a>, which approved the bill by voice vote on July 9.

At the July 9 markup, Democrats raised objections to the speed with which the bill was progressing, saying there has not been enough time to get input from the weather and climate community.

Experts testified at two previous hearings that advances in weather forecasting typically benefit the accuracy of climate forecasts, and vice versa.

The bill that emerged from the subcommittee markup contains a provision that would require the NOAA administrator to make “weather-related activities” the top priority for planning in all NOAA “line offices,” including the <a href="http://research.noaa.gov/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Office of Atmospheric and Oceanic Research</a>, which funds a large portfolio of the agency’s research programs.

Kathryn Sullivan, the acting NOAA director, said drawing a fine line between weather and climate forecasting would be shortsighted.

“The underlying intent of the bill, of course, is one that we embrace," Sullivan said at a press conference at an Arctic climate conference in Washington on Wednesday. But, she said, "There are a number of provisions as currently drafted in it that we find too narrow and not consistent with how the weather enterprise works.”

According to NOAA’s definition, weather forecasts extend to two weeks in advance, while climate forecasts cover time spans beyond two weeks. Such climate forecasts include everything from seasonal drought outlooks, which are relied upon by water managers, wildfire firefighting agencies, and farmers in particular, to long-range climate change projections that provide insight into how the planet is likely to respond to increasing amounts of manmade greenhouse gases.

The House bill places an emphasis on short-term weather forecasting compared to climate. Bridenstine press secretary Sheryl Kaufman told Climate Central that the bill would prompt “A shift in priority so that there is a higher priority on weather forecasting” within NOAA, when compared to climate research.

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Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., who sits on the House Science Committee, has a special relationship with scientists—they’re her constituents. Her district includes the Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratory, which researches high-energy physics and is developing technology that could enable electric cars to travel twice their current distance before recharging. Biggert worries that candidates like Perry will get the party branded as antiscience. “We seem to be moving ahead in a vein that’s not the scientific way,” she said of Republicans. “And that’s a shame, because there are a lot of us that really believe in the sciences and look to scientists. It’s a concern.”

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<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Subcommittee on Environment and Energy</h2>

dems:

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brian_Baird" title="Brian Baird">Brian Baird</a> (Wash.), Chairman</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jerry_Costello" title="Jerry Costello">Jerry Costello</a> (Ill.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynn_Woolsey" title="Lynn Woolsey">Lynn Woolsey</a> (Calif.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ben_Lujan" title="Ben Lujan">Ben Lujan</a> (N.M)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Tonko" title="Paul Tonko">Paul Tonko</a> (N.Y.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson" title="Eddie Bernice Johnson">Eddie Bernice Johnson</a> (Texas)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_Lipinski" title="Daniel Lipinski" class="mw-redirect">Daniel Lipinski</a> (Ill.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gabrielle_Giffords" title="Gabrielle Giffords">Gabrielle Giffords</a> (Ariz.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Matheson" title="Jim Matheson">Jim Matheson</a> (Ariz.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lincoln_Davis" title="Lincoln Davis">Lincoln Davis</a> (Tenn.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ben_Chandler" title="Ben Chandler">Ben Chandler</a> (K.Y.)</li>

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gop:

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Inglis" title="Bob Inglis">Bob Inglis</a> (S.C.), Ranking Member</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roscoe_Bartlett" title="Roscoe Bartlett" class="mw-redirect">Roscoe Bartlett</a> (Md.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judy_Biggert" title="Judy Biggert">Judy Biggert</a> (Ill.)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Randy_Neugebauer" title="Randy Neugebauer">Randy Neugebauer</a> (Texas)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_McCaul" title="Michael McCaul">Michael McCaul</a> (Texas)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mario_Diaz-Balart" title="Mario Diaz-Balart" class="mw-redirect">Mario Diaz-Balart</a> (Fla.)</li>

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