{"id":7108,"date":"2011-03-07T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T00:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:35:15","slug":"live-blogging-the-climate-science-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/03\/live-blogging-the-climate-science-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-blogging the climate science hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I will be live-blogging<\/a> the House Energy and Commerce committee hearings on climate science with Eli Kintisch. The details are available here<\/a>, and there should be a live feed from the committee website<\/a> from 10am. <\/p>\n

Eli and I did this last year for the last Democrat-run hearings<\/a>, and it went quite well – a little like a play-by-play from Eli and some background analysis\/cites from me. People can ask questions and comment in real time and depending on how busy it gets, they might get a response.<\/p>\n

As usual, this hearing will likely be long on political grandstanding and short on informed discussion, but there might be some gems. Of the witnesses, John Christy and Roger Pielke Sr. are the main witnesses for the majority side, while Richard Somerville, Francis Zwiers and Chris Field are the Dem invitees. There is newcomer to the roster (at least to me), in Knute Nadelhoffer<\/a>, who presumably will discuss climate change impacts on biological systems (but I don’t really know). There is one out-of-left-field witness, Donald Roberts, who is a serially wrong DDT advocate<\/a> who is probably there in order to dismiss environmental regulation in general, following the well-worn strategy described in Oreskes and Conway’s “Merchants of Doubt<\/a>” (Chapter 7 on the revisionist attacks on Rachel Carson) (NB. DDT-related arguments are off topic for this blog, but for background of the specifics of the DDT ‘meme’ see this summary<\/a>, and interested commenters are encouraged to go to Deltoid<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Anyway, for those who are aficionados of science as contact sport (TM, Steve Schneider), it might be fun.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> This was also live-blogged at ClimateCentral<\/a> and twittered by UCS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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