Friday, January 21, 2011

Department of catching up on Eli's reading

Interesting comments in an interview published Nov. 12 in Science about what should happen in the Nov. 17 congressional hearing on climate change.

Brian Baird (D-WV) - We're going to start with the basics: why the ocean is acidifying, why we think the climate will change. i don't think we've made the case for the basic phsics and chemistry of these two phenomina and presented the evidence that it is happening

Bob Inglis (R-SC): i would encourage the scientists to come to these hearings with great glee, to show the data that they have discovered and to present it in a winning way. . . If they come with an attitude of defensiveness then it will support those who say "This is a bunch of hooey and we don't need to spend any money on it."

3 comments:

WVhybrid said...

Ah, Brian Baird is not from West by G*d Virginia. He's from somewhere a little west of here....

WVhybrid

David B. Benson said...

I suppose he has a law degree?

Hank Roberts said...

Brian Norton Baird is a former U.S. Representative for Washington [State]'s 3rd congressional district, serving from 1999 until 2011.