All around Washington, D.C. a deluge of evidence runs through the streets and buildings, and you would think that the U.S. Senate’s Committee Environment and Public Works would stop denying the scientific evidence of global warming. Yes, there is debate within the scientific community regarding global warming. But instead of engaging the scientific evidence, the Senate continues to put down any research that indicates that carbon dioxide emissions by humans might have contributed to global warming.

What triggered the lastest episode of denial was an article by Seth Borenstein, AP Science writer entitled Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy. In the article Borenstein reported that he contacted more than 100 scientists, and for the ones that responded, he wrote this summary: “Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.”

This upset the Majority wing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. They issued a statement that criticized the artcle by Bornstein. Apparently, the committee wants full disclosure. Give us all the names of those scientists you contacted Bornstein!

I understand the Majority wing of the Committee not being very happy to have Al Gore receive acolades from scientists about his movie and book. But I doubt whether they would have embraced any movie or book about global warming, even it was produced by the U.S. government.

I recommend that the entire committee, majority and minority members, read Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change!