Roy Spencer in the U.S. Senate

The Reference Frame: Roy Spencer in the U.S. Senate

Spencer says a lot of key things, for example that the humans obviously have some impact on the climate - for example, they influence the area of forests - which doesn't mean that they can stop using fossil fuels. Whether the carbon technologies can be replaced by something else in the future will depend on technological breakthroughs and you can't legislate new technologies into the existence. In fact, billions have already been spent and nothing that could be called a breakthrough has emerged.

But those political faces simply don't want to hear anything that makes sense. Instead, they want to tell Spencer and real scientists in general that they are putting children at risk. And they want to listen to bought scientists such as Kevin Trenberth to say things that the politicians pay them for saying. In his speech, Spencer recalls that Robert Watson, the 1997-2002 chairman of the IPCC, told Spencer 20 years ago that CO2 should be regulated (much like freons), years before a scientific "justification" was on the table.