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The Honorable Jimmy Hayes, Ranking Democratic Member, Subcommittee
on Energy and Environment
The Honorable Tim Roemer

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Tab D (Question 3) ...

Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu-
tion of Working Group I to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995......

Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu-
tion of Working Group II to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995 ......

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•Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu-
tion of Working Group III to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995 .........

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Copy of the IPCC procedures regarding the production of "Technical
Papers"

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• Copy of the IPCC budget for 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 ............. • Table of contributions to the IPCC, including U.S. contributions Tab J (Question 11):

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•FCCC prepared report on Annex I Party national communications • Text of FCCC Secretariat's in-depth review of U.S. communications Tab K (Question 13): ........

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•Copies of FCCC Article 4.1 and Article 12.1

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⚫U.S. intervention from AGBM-3: Developing country commitments
⚫U.S. AGBM presentation

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Copy of the initial report on an inventory and assessment of technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change

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Tab M (Question 19): .......

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List of measures considered for analysis and for case study development.. 589 Tab N (Question 20):

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List of references of chapter 18 of IPCC (Annex I)
Tab O (Question 21):

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Copy of global change and health proposal submitted to CDC and NOAA. 599 Questions submitted by the Honorable Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment to the Honorable Warren M. Christopher, Secretary of State, the Honorable Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy, and Dr. Robert T. Watson, Associate Director of Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Tab A: Answers to questions

Tab B (Question 3)

Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC
Second Assessment Synthesis of Scientific-Technical Information
Relevant to Interpreting Article 2 of the UN Framework Conven-
tion on Climate Change

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•Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu-
tion of Working Group I to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995 (See Tab D above in previous letter) ..........

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Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu

tion of Working Group II to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995 (See Tab D above in previous letter)

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Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu

tion of Working Group III to the IPCC Second Assessment Report,
1995 (See Tab D above in previous letter)

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Tab C (Question 4.c): List of NGOs/USGCRP

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Tab D (Question 9.b): Figure B4 of IPCC 1992 report

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SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC TRUST: THE SCIENCE BEHIND FEDERAL POLICIES AND MANDATES: CASE STUDY 2-CLIMATE MODELS AND PROJECTIONS OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1995

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT,

Washington, DC.

The Subcommittee met at 9:40 a.m. in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Subcommittee, presiding.

Mr. ROHRABACHER. The Energy and Environment Subcommittee will come to order.

I got up this morning and it was not as cold as I expected. I guess all the hot air we have been expending around here about the closing of the government actually has not warmed the environment at all. But we will see.

In 1884, the head of the U.S. Patent Office, Henry Elsworth, suggested his office might soon be abolished because we had reached a time when everything useful had already been invented. That is a story we all know.

In 1992, then Senator Al Gore wrote in his book, Earth In the Balance, that further research on global warming was unnecessary and in fact harmful because all the issues had been decided, and immediate action was required.

Of course, we now know that there were a few useful inventions left, and we also know, three years later, that research is constantly revealing revised estimates of global warming.

This is the second in a series of hearings on scientific integrity and the public trust. The hearings will look at how agencies under this subcommittee's jurisdiction are using science to formulate public policy.

Today's hearing will look at the issue of climate change, specifically at the use of computer models to forecast global warming over the next 100 years.

After the first hearing of this series, and that was a hearing on stratospheric ozone, Vice President Gore called us "Stalinists" for having balanced panels that included scientists who dissented from Mr. Gore's orthodoxy.

So we invited Mr. Gore to testify. And to the Vice President we said, "My goodness, come here!" We know you have an interest in

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