Senator Jim Inhofe, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has a sneak-peek into a major new Senate report on his Committee's investigation into the scandal commonly known as Climategate.
His opening remarks at the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing:
During the hearing he asks EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson if she and the EPA thinks the IPCC Report is still the "gold standard" for climate change legislation. She refused to answer the question.
Pajamas Media has a preview of the report which calls for Al Gore to come before the Committee to defend his video on global warming here.
I will update this post as the hearing detail emerge.
Update #1( 02-23-10@4:59) Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media has Breaking News: Senator Barbara Boxer and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Throw IPCC Under the Bus
Both Boxer and Jackson appeared to be trying to distance the EPA from the IPCC report. Boxer said:
In my opening statement, I didn’t quote one international scientist or IPCC report. … We are quoting the American scientific community here.When Inhofe directly asked Jackson if she still considered the IPCC report the “gold standard,” she answered:
The primary focus of the endangerment finding was on climate threat risks in this country.Jackson also noted:
[The errors Inhofe had presented were] international events. The information on the glaciers and other events doesn’t weaken … the evidence we considered [to make the Endangerment Finding on CO2.]The EPA has specifically cited the IPCC AR4 report as the primary source from which it drew information to make the Endangerment Finding on CO2 as a pollutant. In the past, the worldwide nature of the climate changes, and of the data, had been cited as one of the reasons for using the IPCC report, but now it appeared that Jackson was trying to separate the Endangerment Finding from the IPCC.
