The House of Representatives' Science and Technology Committee is hosting a hearing on climate science today. In fact, it's starting just about right now. This particular hearing has been convened by Democrats and is generally being looked at as a preemptive strike against Republican-led climate hearings next year. There will be a lot of scientists giving testimony—and (unsurprisingly, if you know the science) most of them will be talking about the widely accepted data showing that global climate change is happening—but there will also be several skeptical witnesses.
The first is Judy Curry—a scientist who isn't skeptical about climate change, itself, but does have some legit critiques on specific claims made about what impacts climate change will cause. The other two are scientists I'm less familiar with—Richard Lindzen and Patrick Michaels. From quick research, neither denies climate change is happening, they just think the impacts will be so minor as to not really matter much.
If you want to follow this, or catch up on it later, a good place to start would be Science magazine's live-blog coverage. Journalist Eli Kintisch & climate scientist Gavin Schmidt will keep you updated on what's going on throughout the day, and will likely provide better context and necessary background information than most other media outlets.
Photo of California's Moss Landing power plant taken by astrophysicist Dawn Erb. Found in the BoingBoing Flickr Pool. Used with permission.
