Drought, Heat Shows Climate Change is Real, Democrats Say - Bloomberg

Evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm is unequivocal, said James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography at Harvard University.
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“A forest fire is no proof of global warming,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican. “Give me a break.”

John Christy, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said of recent weather disasters, “This is what Mother Nature looks like.”

Weather Records Flawed, Climate Skeptics Report | LiveScience

"The trend value is not much greater than zero. Some regions of the USA are actually cooling," Watts told LiveScience in an email, referring to the change in U.S. climate...
It's important to note neither has been peer reviewed, the process used to vet scientific papers for publication. "You should not be writing about them at all," Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., told LiveScience in an email.
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However, a study published in 2010 by NCDC researchers in response to these concerns, found no evidence that the temperature trend was inflated as a result, and other work has come to similar to conclusions, Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told LiveScience in an email.

"This is of course not the answer that Watts et al want to hear, and so they keep talking about it as if this work doesn't exist," Schmidt wrote.

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Inhofe continues fight against climate 'alarmists' | Tulsa World

Earlier, Inhofe had remarked that "some people would think that this hearing today was scheduled to take advantage of recent events."