A House Energy and Commerce Committee panel that was
requested by some House Democrats is scheduled to
meet Tuesday to discuss current climate science and the EPA:Witnesses invited by the Democrats include Richard Somerville
, who is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego.Somerville helped organize the 2007 Bali Climate Declaration signed by over 200 scientists...
Also testifying is John Christy
[invited by the GOP], director of the Earth System Science Center
at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. He told the House Ways and Means Committee in 2009 that models and data showing warming are off-base.
“We have found that climate models and popular surface temperature data sets overstate the changes in the real atmosphere and that actual changes are not alarming,” he said in testimony submitted to that panel.
The names are familiar in climate policy circles. “Climate change deniers have a short bench, so we were not surprised at their witnesses,” said a Democratic aide.
