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Climate-change skeptics get hearing.(Inside Track)(Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works )
At a hearing chaired by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) on December 6, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works heard testimony from climate scientists on the subject of global warming. The hearing, which according to Senator Inhofe would "examine the media's role in presenting the science of climate change," was billed by much of the media as a meeting of global-warming skeptics, even though it took testimony from scientists on both sides of the debate.
Among the "skeptics" presenting information to the Senate committee was Dr. Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist and environmental scientist at Australia's James Cook University. Carter pointed out that, in his opinion, the media have "propagated an alarmist cause for climate change, and they have certainly failed to convey to the public both the degree of uncertainty that is characteristic of climate science and many essential facts that are relevant to considerations of human causation."
Carter, a voice not often heard in the global-warming debate, pointed to a number of inconvenient facts that call the standard view of global warming into question, including:
* Ice core records show temperature changes preceding C[O.sub.2] changes by "hundreds of years or more."
* Data from Greenland proves that the current warm period "corresponds to a cyclic warming peak within ...
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