Congressional hearings?
Feb 21, 2015
Bishop Hill in Climate: Parliament, Climate: Surface

According to the Daily Caller, Republicans in the US Congress seem set to announce hearings into the surface temperature records. This intelligence was based on a tweet from Dana Rohrabacher, the vice chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

 

@caerbannog666 expect there to be congressional hearings into NASA altering weather station data to falsely indicate warming & sea rise

— Dana Rohrabacher (@DanaRohrabacher) February 20, 2015

 

It seems fairly clear that the surface stations are a shambles. It is not so obvious that this has led to a material overstatement of warming. But I think we can say with some certainty that a congressional hearing is probably not going to get to the bottom of the scientific issues.

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