July 19, 2013
CIRES Roger Pielke Jr. senate testimony
"Climate Change: It's Happening Now," a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
CIRES Fellow Roger Pielke Jr., discussing known links between climate change and weather extremes.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, who convened the hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
CIRES Fellow and disaster expert Roger Pielke Jr. testified on extreme weather events and climate change July 18th during “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now,” a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pielke, the incoming director of CIRES’ Center for Science and Technology Policy, focused on the state-of-the-science linking extreme weather and climate change, including results from the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events, released in 2012 (http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/).
To read his testimony, watch an archived webcast or learn more, please click here.
Witnesses were:
- Dr. Heidi Cullen, Chief Climatologist, Climate Central
- Mr. Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America
- Mr. KC Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions
- Dr. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
- Dr. Robert P. Murphy, Senior Economist, Institute for Energy Research
- Dr. Jennifer Francis, Research Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
- Dr. Scott C. Doney, Director, Ocean and Climate Change Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Dr. Margaret Leinen, Executive Director, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University
- Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado
- Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama-Huntsville
