To explain what we know about climate change, and why and how we know it, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will host top-level American climate scientists at a congressional hearing this Thursday, May 6, 2010.
The scientists will address the claims of deniers head-on. Thursday's panel features a member of the investigative panel convened by the University of East Anglia and led by Lord Ron Oxburgh to review the stolen emails from that school's Climactic Research Unit. The “Oxburgh Inquiry" exonerated the scientists who were attacked following the emails, saying they “saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work."
The hearing also includes three scientists involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, which have also been attacked by climate science deniers. The Republican witness on the panel will be Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
What: Select Committee hearing, “The Foundation of Climate Science"
When:Â Thursday, May 6, 2010, 9:30 AM
Where:Â 2237 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, and on the web at globalwarming.house.gov
Who: Dr. Lisa Graumlich, Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, and member of the “Oxburgh Inquiry" panel, Dr. Chris Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and co-chair of “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" portion of new IPCC report due in 2014, Dr. James McCarthy, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University, past President and Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, co-chair of “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" portion of IPCC report published in 2001, Dr. James Hurrell, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, contributor to IPCC reports and Lord Christopher Monckton, Chief Policy Adviser, Science and Public Policy Institute.
To view the hearing live, log on to: http://www.globalwarming.house.gov/mediacenter/pressreleases_2008?id=0226#main_content
