Sen. McCain holds junk science climate hearing

Witnesses are expected to detail dramatic scenarios of localized climate impactsreduced snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, increasing drought in Californias wine-growing regionsdespite the widely acknowledged inability of current science to make such predictions.

The claims that one state will be impacted by climate change in a specific way are based on computer models that are simply not able to make such predictions, said Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.  Forecasting climate catastrophe state by state may be helpful in scaring the population of a particular part of the country, but it isnt scientifically honest.