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State of Climate Science: Videos of US Senate Select Committee Hearing
Editor’s note: Don’t miss the two videos of Dr. Jane Lubchenco’s simple but convincing demonstration of the effects of ocean acidification on marine life.
With the international climate change talks in Copenhagen fast approaching, there is real urgency to reach diplomatic consensus on a planetary solution. In a hearing on Wednesday December 2, 2009, the US Senate Select Committee explored with climate scientists from the Obama administration the urgent, consensus view on our planetary problem: that global warming is real, and the science indicates that it is getting worse.
At the hearing, December 2nd, 2009, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) hosted two of America’s preeminent climate scientists, Dr. John Holdren and Dr. Jane Lubchenco.
Dr. Holdren is the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the director of the acclaimed Woods Hole Research Center.
Dr. Lubchenco is the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States’ leading climate office.
Also speaking was Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA.) See the video of his passionate response to climate change deniers.
The past decade has been the hottest in recorded history, with all of the years since 2001 being in the top 10 of hottest, according to NASA. This summer, the world’s oceans were the warmest in NOAA’s 130 years of record-keeping. Meanwhile, global heat-trapping pollution continues to rise.
Dr. John Holdren’s Opening Statement
Dr. Jane Lubchenko gives demonstration on ocean acidification – Part 1
Dr. Jane Lubchenko gives demonstration on ocean acidification – Part 2
Congressman Jay Inslee’s Question and Answer Period
Closing Statement: Chairman Edward J. Markey
Photo of results of Dr. Lubchenco’s demonstration of effects of acidification on three
chalk samples
