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Roger Pielke, Jr. Testifies at Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
July 15, 2013
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works invited Roger Pielke, Jr., to testify on July 18 at a full committee hearing entitled "Climate Change: It's Happening Now."
Pielke focused on the state-of-the-science linking extreme weather and climate change, including results from the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events, released in 2012.
Witnesses were:
- Dr. Heidi Cullen, Chief Climatologist, Climate Central [testimony]
- Mr. Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America [testimony]
Mr. KC Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions [testimony]- Dr. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research [testimony]
- Dr. Robert P. Murphy, Senior Economist, Institute for Energy Research [testimony]
- Dr. Jennifer Francis, Research Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University [testimony]
- Dr. Scott C. Doney, Director, Ocean and Climate Change Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [testimony]
- Dr. Margaret Leinen, Executive Director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University [testimony]
- Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado [testimony]
Dr. Roy Spencer, Research Scientist, University of Alabama, Huntsville [testimony]
Photo 1: "Climate Change: It's Happening Now," a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Photo 2: CIRES Fellow Roger Pielke Jr., discussing known links between climate change and weather extremes
Photo 3: Sen. Barbara Boxer, who convened the hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
