{"id":248674,"date":"2023-03-19T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248674"},"modified":"2023-03-19T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:23:23","slug":"senate-budget-committee-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248674","title":{"rendered":"Senate Budget Committee Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Etc.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Judith Curry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 22, I will be testifying before the Senate Budget Committee on the topic \u201cRisky Business: How Climate Change is Changing Insurance Markets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The web site for Hearing is [here<\/a>], you should be able to watch  on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the list of witnesses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Eric Anderson, President of Aon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Nancy Watkins, Principal & Consulting Actuary at Milliman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Dr. Benjamin Keys, Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Judith Curry, President of Climate Forecast Applications Network, Professor Emerita at Georgia Tech<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Jerry Theodorou, Director of Finance, Insurance and Trade at R Street Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these individuals look interesting and representative of a broad range of perspectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that I am the only witness with \u201cclimate science\u201d in my remit.  This Hearing clearly isn\u2019t about climate science, but based on various assumptions about climate change and its impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hear through the grapevine that this is a tough Committee to testify before.  Should be interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I heard about this Hearing from a Congressional staffer last Monday afternoon, and received my official invitation on Wednesday, with written testimony due next Tuesday at 10 a.m.  So this gives the witness a week to prepare, if you start working right after the call from the staffer (gambling that the individual will actually be invited to testify).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My written testimony is almost finished (need to work on conclusions and formatting).  I was able to use some material from my book (condensing and simplifying), which helped me pull this together.  This is an interesting (and newly relevant) topic for me, given its emphasis on risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will post my written testimony in a new blog post Wednesday morning before the Hearing starts.  This should be an interesting Hearing, stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: I am able to testify via Zoom, so I don\u2019t have to travel.  Out of the horrors of Covid-19, one useful practice has emerged: having people travel to meetings or Hearings to present in person is not necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hear through the grapevine that this is a tough Committee to testify before.\u00a0 Should be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":248676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-778.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-12GS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":224396,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=224396","url_meta":{"origin":248674,"position":0},"title":"#30 – Ross McKitrick on big problems with paleoclimate data and land temperature records","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/10\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":256523,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256523","url_meta":{"origin":248674,"position":1},"title":"CFACT\u2019s Rucker invited to testify to NJ Senate GOP hearing on whale deaths","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"CFACT\u2019s president and co-founder, Craig Rucker, was invited to testify to a hearing hosted by the New Jersey state Senate Republicans investigating the reasons behind the increase in whale and dolphin deaths along the Jersey Shore.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0image-155-1024x640-1.webp?fit=1024%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0image-155-1024x640-1.webp?fit=1024%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0image-155-1024x640-1.webp?fit=1024%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0image-155-1024x640-1.webp?fit=1024%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":263515,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263515","url_meta":{"origin":248674,"position":2},"title":"\u2018Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate\u2019 (1988 exaggerations vs. today)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This\u00a0article\u00a0on the front page of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0by noted environmental reporter\u00a0Philip Shabecoff, (June 24, 1988) marked the beginning of the media-driven climate scare. 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