There is a climate science hearing trial today at 10 am of the full House Science Committee, “Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy” (webcast here ). The Charter ( here ) makes clear this is a Scopes-like trial of Climategate, since it has an extended discussion of the stolen e-mails (which it claims were “leaked” — as if) along with innuendo-laden treatments of “Data Quality” and the “IPCC process.”  The Charter never mentions the multiple vindications of the scientists whose emails were stolen and of the IPCC itself — and it omits any discussion of the massive amount of data and independent analyses that underpin our understanding of climate science.  And those phony attacks  are then used to question EPA’s rather obvious finding that unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases are a danger to the health and well-being of Americans. The fossil fuel funded Tea Party and climate zombies of the GOP have turned it into the party of no science — see Tim Pawlenty: “Every one of us” running for president has flip-flopped on climate change and National Journal : “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones.” So rather than calling this the Scopes trial, let’s just call it the Nopes trial. The Democrats were allowed one witness and invited a serious climate scientist, MIT’s Kerry Emanuel.  The GOP had five witnesses and invited 3 non-scientists to spread disinformation on greenhouse gas regulations and costs.  Of the two actual scientists they invited, Richard Muller and John Christy, only one is actually a climate scientist.  Christy, though, is also a serial disinformer.  Skeptical Science debunked point by point his last testimony (see “ Should you believe anything John Christy says? “).  For more, see House GOP line up the usual disinformers for climate science hearing . Muller likes to claim he is an independent, apolitical physicist trying to restore “credibility” to the temperature record.  But in fact, like Christy, the Koch-funded Muller has also launched phony attacks on climate science for years (see here ).  Like Christy, Muller is a serial disinformer, as we’ve seen (see “ Koch-funded scientist Richard Muller makes up story about Al Gore, Ralph Cicerone, and polar bears “).  Indeed, Skeptical Science has begun a multipart debunking of Muller, which I repost below: [ Note:  SkS accuses Mueller of "misinformation" -- but the charge below has been debunked so many times in the past two years, including by the independent commissions reviewing the emails -- that it must now qualify as disinformation.  Willful ignorance of the facts -- like ignorance of the law -- is no defense. ] The most cited ‘ Climategate ‘ email is one from Phil Jones discussing a graph he produced for a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report, where he discusses “Mike’s trick” and “hide the decline”

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GOP’s only scientists at ‘Scopes’ climate hearing are Richard Muller and John Christy. Go figure! – Skeptical Science debunks more Muller…