Invited witnesses prepare to testify about climate science and the Paris agreement.
Tuesday saw yet another congressional science committee hearing on the topic of climate change. At least the topic of this hearing, convened by House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chair Lamar Smith (R-Texas), was ostensibly focused on policy rather than arguing the science. The title was “Paris Climate Promise: A Bad Deal for America.” Of course, climate science still took some shots along the way.
Rep. Smith opened the hearing with what would be a recurring theme: the Paris agreement will damage the economy without much climate benefit. But Smith couldn’t resist bringing up his ongoing feud with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He said:
An example of how this administration promotes its suspect climate agenda can be seen at the National Oceanographic [sic] and Atmospheric Administration. Its employees altered historical climate data to get politically correct results in an attempt to disprove the eighteen year lack of global temperature increases.
NOAA conveniently issued its news release that promotes this report just as the administration announced its extensive climate change regulations. NOAA has refused to explain its findings and provide documents to this Committee and the American people. The people have a right to see the data, evaluate it, and know the motivations behind this study.
Here's a quick review: There’s no evidence that NOAA scientists did anything but their jobs, there is no eighteen-year lack of global temperature increases, the update to NOAA’s dataset had been in the works for years, NOAA provided Smith with personal explanations of how the work was done and why, all the data has been publicly available all along, and NOAA has provided him with the e-mails between staff (but not scientists) he demanded.
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