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|a Drought and Global Climate Change |h [electronic resource] |b An Analysis of Statements by Roger Pielke, Jr. |
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|a In the question and answer period following my February 25 testimony on the Administration’s
Climate Action Plan before the Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on
Environment and Public Works, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) suggested that I had misled the
American people with comments I made to reporters on February 13, linking recent severe
droughts in the American West to global climate change. To support this proposition, Senator
Sessions quoted from testimony before the Environment and Public Works Committee the
previous July by Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., a University of Colorado political scientist. Specifically,
the Senator read the following passages from Dr. Pielke’s written testimony:It is misleading, and just plain incorrect, to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes,
tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United
States or globally.
Drought has “for the most part, become shorter, less, frequent, and cover a smaller portion
of the U.S. over the last century”. Globally, “there has been little change in drought over
the past 60 years.” |
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