Lamar Smith, Global Warming Skeptic, Set To Chair House Science Committee

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a skeptic of man-made global warming, is set to take over the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in the 113th Congress.

A Climate Scientist Sees a Fair Path for West and East on CO2 - YouTube

Michael Schlesinger, a climatologist at the University of Illinois, has been immersed in both climate science and policy analysis for decades. In this interview for Dot Earth, he summarizes findings in two recent papers on which he is a co-author (references below).

At the 1:56 mark, warmist Schlesinger admits that natural variability caused the early-20th century warming and the mid-20th century cooling.  He doesn't explain why he thinks that CO2 caused the late-20th century warming.