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11. Inhofe Floor Speech: The Heartland Institutes International Climate Conference - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    May 17, 2010

    Dempsey epw senate gov Full text of speech as prepared for delivery If you ve been watching the global warming debate of late you will notice that supporters of cap and trade are getting anxious They realize...going to pass However for those who still believe that anthropogenic gases cause catastrophic global warming which I don t but even if you do none of the above bills will meaningfully reduce CO2 concentrations...In a Senate EPW hearing last July I asked Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson if any of the global warming bills under consideration would reduce CO2 concentrations Administrator Jackson said that without...

12. Inhofe on Fox News Business: Kerry-Lieberman Global Warming Cap and Tax Bill is Dead - Press Releases -...
    May 12, 2010

    Releases Home Newsroom Press Releases Share Tweet Print Inhofe on Fox News Business Kerry Lieberman Global Warming Cap and Tax Bill is Dead May 12 2010 Posted by Matt Dempsey Matt Dempsey epw senate gov Inhofe...Reid said yesterday Reid will probably choose an energy only bill over Kerry and Lieberman s global warming legislation which is very unlikely to become law this year K Whitney Stanco a Washington based...substitute that seeks defeat of federal cap and trade efforts and calls for an investigation into the warming myth AFP After long wait Senate takes up climate 05 12 10 Some of Kerry s allies say he has watered...

13. Timeline of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Emergency Response - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    May 07, 2010

    steel joints in the well pipe and stop the flow of oil Thursday May 13 2010 Transocean Ltd filed a petition seeking to limit its liability using a law from 1851 Friday May 14 2010 Tar balls were discovered...

14. Excerpts of New Senate Climategate Report - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    February 23, 2010

    20th century warming and whether it was anomalous over the past millennium As Phil Jones admitted to the BBC recently There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or...or not Of course he continued if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or warmer than today based on an equivalent coverage over the NH and SH then obviously the late 20th century warmth would...the very IPCC reports adduced as dispositive proof of a scientific consensus on catastrophic global warming The emails and documents reveal among other things an insular world of scientists working within...

15. UNs Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee...
    January 28, 2010

    Tweet Print UNs Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims January 28 2010 Posted by Matt Dempsey matt dempsey epw senate gov In The News FoxNews com U N s Global Warming Report Under...is sloppy science guiding global warming policy based on a study of forest fires A view of the Amazon basin forest north of Manaus Brazil A U N report stated that global warming is threatening the forests...has undermined the credibility of scientists and policymakers who back the U N s findings about global warming In the Fourth Assessment Report AR4 issued in 2007 by the U N s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

16. ABC News: Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted? - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    January 28, 2010

    Scientists already feel that the second part of the IPCC report which addresses the consequences of global warming is not as sound as the first part which deals with the underlying physical factors contributing...controversial temperature curve The so called hockey stick graph was intended to prove that the average global temperature in the last 1 000 years was never as high as it is today To arrive at the date several...and wrote I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data For the IPCC report that was written at the time the...

17. Glaciergate: More Scientific Fraud: "Botched" - "Riddled with Errors" - "Panel got it wrong" - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    January 21, 2010

    Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world s most authoritative report on global warming Inhofe EPW News Round Up USA Today U N apologizes for botched climate prediction United Nations...Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world s most authoritative report on global warming forcing the Nobel Prize winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise...mails from a major British climatology center that cast doubt on the solidity of evidence for global warming It s still not clear exactly how the error made it into the IPCC s assessment though climate...

18. ENDANGERMENT 101 - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    January 11, 2010

    buildings restaurants and many more On top of that EPA s action will have an infinitesimal affect on global warming as emissions from China India and other developing countries will easily negate any emissions...with 18 other organizations petitioned EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Section 202 a of the CAA For more background on the ICTA petition click here http www icta org...org doc ghgpet2 pdf EPA Administrator Carol Browner punted the petition the agency concluded CO2 is a pollutant under the CAA but declined to regulate to the Bush Administration which on September 8 2003...

19. WashPost: On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    December 18, 2009

    Copenhagen hoping to seal an elusive deal on climate change his approval rating on dealing with global warming has crumbled at home and there is broad opposition to spending taxpayer money to encourage developing...and a widespread perception that there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is happening But for all the challenges American policymakers have to overcome nearly two thirds...release of greenhouse gases from sources like power plants cars and factories in an effort to curb global warming Last week the Environmental Protection Agency said it is putting together plans to control the...

20. THE GOLD STANDARD - Press Releases - U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    December 18, 2009

    Climategate It was Trenberth who wrote among other things The fact is we can t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it s a travesty we can t Trenberth was like Jones a Coordinating Lead Author of...measure supported by the IPCC s work it s also supported by the US Climate Change Science Program US Global Change Research Program and the National Research Council all of which rely heavily on the IPCC and...the TSD According to climate model simulations summarized by the IPCC through about 2030 the global warming rate is affected little by the choice of different future emissions scenarios page 8 Radiative...