Below, please find my opening statement. You can find my full written testimony here in PDF.
Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Toomey and the entire committee,
Thank you for the opportunity to share my perspectives today remotely.
I am a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and I have studied the use of science in policy for more than 25 years, including a long-term focus on climate.
Unfortunately, key scientific guidance on climate that informs policy– including central bank climate stress testing and U.S. government estimates of the social cost of carbon – has departed from basic standards of scientific integrity.
A main reason for this departure is that climate science has increasingly been enlisted in support of policy advocacy rather than to inform policy debates and decisions.
Today I Have Five Points to Make
FIRST, I emphasize that human-caused climate change is real, it poses significant risks, and…
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