A Forbes contributor reported that an exchange
between Senator Ted Cruz and Sierra Club President Aaron Mair at the hearing of
the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights
and Federal Courts held last Tuesday led to the discovery of Mair’s incomplete knowledge
regarding global warming and questions concerning the theory’s scientific
validity. Despite his high activist position in this field, Mair and his
accompanying staff were unfamiliar with the meaning of “the Pause,” when asked about
the term by Cruz. Mair and his aides thought it referred to a decline in warming
global temperatures throughout the 1940s—a decline that the journalist notes continued
through the 1970s even though carbon dioxide was on the rise. As pointed out by
Cruz, the term “the Pause,” made popular by former President Al Gore, is the
name climate-warming enthusiasts use to describe the lack of any substantive global
warming activity for the last 13 to 18 years, based on temperature data from NASA
satellites by Remote Sensing Systems as well as data from scientists at the
University of Alabama. Mair’s claim that 97% of scientists are in agreement about
the “anthropogenic impact” of global warming was also refuted by Cruz, who
stated that such an assertion hinges on “one bogus study.”
If the Sierra Club knew they would be testifying
before a Senate Committee regarding global warming, one would expect them to be
well-informed on their subject. In addition, there seems to be a need for total
transparency regarding studies and findings concerning the much politicized scientific
topics of global warming, global cooling, and global climate change. My
suggestion would be to take these matters out of the national and international
political arenas all together by eliminating any government/political funding
and pressures of political correctness concerning the issues and allow scientists
to hash things out in an open and scholarly manner.
Amanda Zgonina
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