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Democrats Hold Alternative Hearing on Climate Change
scientificamerican.com ^ | June 21, 2017 | Scott Waldman

Posted on 06/22/2017 11:20:58 AM PDT by PROCON

The discussion was meant to show that lawmakers are not yielding the climate discussion to those who reject mainstream science

For a few hours yesterday, climate science was not the target of attacks in Congress. Researchers, diplomats and policy experts warned about the dangers of ignoring clear research showing that humans are warming the planet at an alarming rate in an unofficial hearing hosted by Democratic lawmakers.

The discussion was an alternative to the recent hearings in the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, run by Chairman Lamar Smith, the conservative Texas Republican who has accused federal climate scientists of engaging in a global conspiracy. He has subpoenaed researchers whose work negates the idea that climbing temperatures have paused, a key talking point for climate skeptics.

Whereas the Republican-led hearings emphasize, and sometimes exaggerate, uncertainties in climate science, the roundtable yesterday hosted by committee Democrats focused on its alarming findings.

The discussion was meant to show that lawmakers are not yielding the climate discussion to those who reject mainstream science, said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), the committee's ranking member.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; democrats; fakescience; globalwarming; losers
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Alternative Hearings = Alternative Universe

Hey, Dems, the majority of thinking Americans reject your junk science, and YOU LOST, so STFU!


1 posted on 06/22/2017 11:20:58 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Man-made weather.

A lie by any other name...

The Lying Left. If you’re a Lying Leftist, you lie. It’s what you do.

The Lying Leftist unsubstantiated and unsupported man-made “climate change” myth to “justify” fascist tyranny is the latest lie in a long line. The Lying Left is tyranny looking for a place to happen.


2 posted on 06/22/2017 11:24:30 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Man-made weather.

A lie by any other name...


yup


3 posted on 06/22/2017 11:25:11 AM PDT by samtheman (FAIL = FAIL Always Involves Liberalism)
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To: PROCON

“Scientific American” hasn’t been trustworthy in decades. I think surrendered science for politics in the late 1980s.


4 posted on 06/22/2017 11:26:03 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: PROCON
❄️🔥🙉🙈🙊. They live in an alternate reality.
5 posted on 06/22/2017 11:26:42 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: PROCON
Democrats Hold Alternative Unilateral Hearing on Climate Change . . . Why would anyone else have a meeting?
6 posted on 06/22/2017 11:27:49 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: PROCON
The politically loaded piece was decry politicization of science. How ironic.

What was a piece of crap article like this doing in a supposed "scientific" journal.

7 posted on 06/22/2017 11:27:55 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: PROCON
...those who reject mainstream science...

"Mainstream"?!?!

Apparently, the question was; "Use the term 'mainstream' in an Orwellian fashion".

Like "Mainstream" Media?!?!

LOL.

8 posted on 06/22/2017 11:30:38 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Stay safe out there. The Haters (TM) are dangerous. Very dangerous.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Yup, my Dad cancelled his subscription late 70’s.


9 posted on 06/22/2017 11:33:10 AM PDT by PROCON (The Paris Accord was an attempt to get America to sign onto the One World Religion.)
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To: PROCON
What foregone conclusion will they arrive to, I wonder (not).

10 posted on 06/22/2017 11:33:29 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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What foregone conclusion will they arrive to, I wonder (not).

The Reverend Al Gore has the answer..


11 posted on 06/22/2017 11:39:40 AM PDT by PROCON (The Paris Accord was an attempt to get America to sign onto the One World Religion.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Yes, Scientific American surrendered science for politics just like Eisenhower said would happen in his farewell address. The left loves the part about the “Military-Industrial Complex” but they forget the next paragraph about the government-science research funding complex.


12 posted on 06/22/2017 11:41:41 AM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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To: PROCON
"... mainstream science?

Scientist who depend on grants to continue their research or scientists employed by the Federal Government...common sense tells you that climate change/global warming is extrapolating conclusions from incomplete data!

13 posted on 06/22/2017 11:46:04 AM PDT by yoe (Keep focused Freepers andspeak out for POTUS ... investigate Maxine Waters, Ilijah Cummings, Nancy P)
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To: PROCON

Its good these lefties are having childish hissy fits over all this silly crap. Now the people can see what they’re in for should they ever screw up and put demo rates in power again.


14 posted on 06/22/2017 11:48:55 AM PDT by FrankR (FULL REPEAL, OR NO DEAL)
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To: FrankR
They're dead, Jim.


15 posted on 06/22/2017 11:59:35 AM PDT by PROCON (The Paris Accord was an attempt to get America to sign onto the One World Religion.)
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To: PROCON

Mainstream Media = Fake News

Mainstream Science = Fake Science


16 posted on 06/22/2017 12:01:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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To: PROCON

They must’ve missed this from a new 2017 paper:

“In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble,”

and:

“Over most of the early twenty-first century, however, model tropospheric warming is substantially larger than observed,”

Iow, the models, upon which all climate science depends, are wrong:

It’s not warming “at an alarming rate”.

Paper by Ben Santer, a Warmist, the charleton whose testimony to the EPA with pretty cherry picked graph, (mis)led them to declare CO2 as a “pollutant”.

Looks like Cya.


17 posted on 06/22/2017 12:09:18 PM PDT by JPJones
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To: PROCON

The Catholic church came after Galelieo for not supporting what they saw as the mainstream of science that put the Earth at the center and had the sun snd stars et al rebolve around it. Galileo was considered a denier of science against the consensus.


18 posted on 06/22/2017 12:28:55 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: PROCON

Scientific American. I recently thumbed through one after decades of not doing so. Quite a magazine. The articles were about homosexual animals being normal, to the fact that we will all be dead in 50 years from Global Warming, to how humans are basically a mistake, to how we would all be much better off if we adopted the Arab life style, to several other eye-popping rants. What the Hell happened to this magazine? Same stuff in the Popular Mechanics I subscribed to to help my grandson’s school fund drive: how petroleum is killing everyone to how renewable energy makes oil obsolete to how birds are more highly evolved than humans. Who reads this crap?


19 posted on 06/22/2017 12:28:59 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: PROCON

So the Democrats held a conspiracy meeting.


20 posted on 06/22/2017 12:40:44 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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