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Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming: Press Releases
Press Releases
- Select Committee Staff Analysis debunks stolen climate email myths
Earth “CSI’s” – Climate Science Investigators – Have Publicly Proven Global Warming is Unequivocal
A new analysis debunks two of the principal myths generated by the manufactured scandal surrounding stolen climate science emails from the University of East Anglia. The staff analysis, written by the majority staff to Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, explains how two of the key phrases used by climate deniers to trumpet their views have previously been explained in publicly-available, peer-reviewed scientific literature.
CLICK HERE to read the staff analysis
“Global warming has been proven real beyond any reasonable doubt,” said Chairman Markey. “Unless, of course, that last remaining doubt is completely manufactured by the defenders of the fossil fuel status quo. That is the case with these stolen climate emails.”
One email has received the lion’s share of the attention, written by Phil Jones of UEA to several other climate scientists, where he refers to using a “trick” to “hide the decline.”
Critics have alleged that these references indicated a conscious attempt to alter data. In fact the two phrases refer to two distinct issues that were openly discussed in the peer-reviewed scientific literature of the time and are readily available now.
The “trick” was not a trick at all, but rather a technique to combine direct thermometer readings with non-thermometer data, in this case from tree rings, to complete a full picture of temperature history. The technique was openly discussed in a 1998 Nature journal article authored by Michael Mann. The staff report explains the methodology used by the scientists in detail.
“When witnesses aren’t available, crime scene investigators reconstruct events from other information,” said Chairman Markey. “The Earth’s ‘CSI’s,’ our climate science investigators -- and in total there are thousands of them -- are doing the same thing by reconstructing past temperatures when there were no thermometers. And now that we are in the middle of exacting a crime against nature through climate change, the manufactured doubt machine is trying to sully a tiny piece of the mountainous evidence.”
The second phrase in question -- “hide the decline” -- refers to a challenge with the use of anomalous tree-ring data, mostly from Siberian forests, after 1960—and the need to use direct measurements to supplement. In another 1998 article in Nature, Dr. Keith Briffa and his co-authors clearly state that their tree ring data set cannot be used to reconstruct temperatures after 1960. In fact, even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes the challenges with the data set.
“This responsible, public scientific discussion was not an attempt to hide anything, or trick anyone. In fact, it happened in plain sight,” said Chairman Markey.
CLICK HERE to read the Select Committee Staff Analysis
- Markey: Re-power the DOE Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Program
Congress Must Replenish the $2 Billion Taken to Fund Cash For Clunkers
Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) and more than twenty-five of their House colleagues sent a letter to Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey urging the restoration of $2 billion for the Department of Energy's renewable energy loan guarantee program. Originally appropriated $6 billion through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February, the renewable energy loan account was reduced by $2 billion in July to extend the highly successful Cash for Clunkers program.
"Earlier this year, we successfully got 700,000 clunkers off the road in less than a month. But we've still got plenty of clunker power plants left on the electricity grid," said Rep. Markey. "Replenishing funding for this critical renewable energy program will help ensure that America is able to scale up the clean energy industry and create jobs needed to produce the energy technologies of the future. That is the recipe for ultimately putting the remaining clunkers to rest. This $2 billion is what we committed to this critical job-generating industry back in February in the Recovery Act, and it is important we follow through on that commitment."
Loan guarantee assistance enables $1 billion in public funding to be leveraged to generate $10 billion in private investment. Restoration of the $2 billion will allow the DOE to continue committing loan guarantees through 2010, providing valuable fuel to the economic recovery. Today's letter, which can be found here, was signed by a total of thirty-one members of Congress.
- Markey: New Climate Records Show Science is True, Not a Trick
2009 On Track to be 5th Hottest Year, This Decade Was Hottest on Record
New temperature findings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found that 2009 is on track to be the 5th warmest year on record, and that this decade was the warmest on record. These new findings buttress the overwhelming scientific record that global warming is real and is accelerating.
“Global warming deniers are trying to say this is all a trick, but the truth of the matter is that our world is getting hotter, faster,” said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the Waxman-Markey climate bill and chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. “There is a mountain of evidence proving global warming is a fact, but the defenders of the fossil fuel status quo are using a molehill of a scandal to distract the world. The deniers will not win, because they are wrong.”
According to data from NOAA, this decade had an average global surface temperature about 1 degree Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, easily surpassing the 1990s value of 0.65 degree Fahrenheit above average.
- Markey: Obama Employment Plan Embraces Clean Energy Jobs Potential
With Housing Efficiency Retrofits, New Jobs Will Start at Home
President Obama’s jobs plan released today embraces the potential for new clean energy jobs across America, said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who co-authored the Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation, which includes provisions for building and home efficiency and renewable energy creation. The president’s plan includes a call for a new program to encourage energy efficiency retrofits in America’s homes, and increased industrial energy efficiency and tax incentives for renewable energy manufacturing here in America.
“By embracing the vast clean energy jobs potential here in America, the president’s jobs plan will get people out of unemployment lines and back on assembly lines making wind turbines and solar panels,” said Rep. Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. “By giving American families the opportunity to permanently reduce their energy bills through energy efficiency, we can ensure that new jobs and energy savings will literally start in the home.”
The House-passed Waxman-Markey bill includes provisions for building energy efficiency retrofits, and sets a nationwide energy efficiency standard.
- Markey: With End of U.S. Gov. Climate Denial, Real Endangerment Comes from Forces Stopping Action
Decision Based on Mountains of Data, Not Molehill of Manufactured Doubt
WASHINGTON (December 7, 2009) – Following the announcement today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it has finalized the so-called “endangerment finding” and determined that heat-trapping pollution constitutes a danger to human health and the environment, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the Waxman-Markey climate bill and chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, issued the following statement:
“Now that the U.S. government has officially ended its era of climate denial, the real endangerment to our planet comes from those who continue to deny the science and delay taking any action.
“The finding that global warming pollution poses a threat to human health and our environment is based on mountains of data accumulated from thousands of scientists over the course of decades. The molehill recently manufactured by a few climate deniers does not change that.