gbaikie mentioned this a while back. I thought I'd let it stew for a while before bringing it up.

Anybody else notice the Wegman Report getting the Silent Treatment from the media? (Fact sheet here.)

Somehow I feel it would have gotten more press if it had come to the opposite conclusion.

The subject is dismissed at Realclimate.org here. If you read Storch's testimony, read all of it.

From a commenter:

From a political point of view it is extremely unfortunate, one might say pathetic, that with the signs of global warming all around us (e.g., persistent heat waves, melting polar ice caps, rapidly retreating glaciers, etc.) the Congress is still stuck debating the merits of the global warming science. Given the emergency we are facing as a species, we need to be on square #15: discussing how high should a carbon tax be, how to save the rainforest, how to save the oceans, how to get those SUVs off the road, what are the merits of geoengineering, how to ensure that people get the income they need in a low carbon economy, etc. The hearing amounted to Nero playing the violin while Rome burned. But the hearing was worse, because at least Nero did not play while humanity was the verge of extinction.

And there you see what it's really all about. Getting the "right people's" hands on the steering wheel, and taking total control.

No environmental activist has ever proposed a solution to any environmental problem that did not involve massive centralized control over individual freedom of choice. Ever.