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3/26/14: Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) confronts White House Science Adviser John Holdren on climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline.
WEBER: Welcome, Dr. Holdren, I appreciate you being back again. I don't remember if it was Mark Twain, or Will Rogers, or Ambrose Bierce, or someone like that who said, "All scientists are sure only about one thing, it's that all scientists before them are wrong." Have you heard that comment?
HOLDREN: I've heard versions of that.
WEBER: Who was that who said that? No idea.
You scientists start with what they call a postulate or theory and you work forward from that direction, is that right?
HOLDREN: It depends on what kind of science that you're talking about. But the notion of posing a hypothesis and then trying to determine whether it is right is one of the tried and true approaches in science, yes.
WEBER: I was wondering how that related to like, for example, global warming and eventually global cooling. I may want to get your cell phone number because if we do go through a couple of cycles, global warming and then back to global cooling, I need to know when to buy my long coat on sale. You know, so I just don't know how y'all prove those hypotheses going back fifty, hundred, you know, what you might say is thousands or if not even millions of years and then postulate those forward.
But we'll get to that in a little bit.
The Keystone pipeline, I'm very very interested in because it comes into my district.
3/26/14: Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) confronts White House Science Adviser John Holdren on climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline.
WEBER: Welcome, Dr. Holdren, I appreciate you being back again. I don't remember if it was Mark Twain, or Will Rogers, or Ambrose Bierce, or someone like that who said, "All scientists are sure only about one thing, it's that all scientists before them are wrong." Have you heard that comment?
HOLDREN: I've heard versions of that.
WEBER: Who was that who said that? No idea.
You scientists start with what they call a postulate or theory and you work forward from that direction, is that right?
HOLDREN: It depends on what kind of science that you're talking about. But the notion of posing a hypothesis and then trying to determine whether it is right is one of the tried and true approaches in science, yes.
WEBER: I was wondering how that related to like, for example, global warming and eventually global cooling. I may want to get your cell phone number because if we do go through a couple of cycles, global warming and then back to global cooling, I need to know when to buy my long coat on sale. You know, so I just don't know how y'all prove those hypotheses going back fifty, hundred, you know, what you might say is thousands or if not even millions of years and then postulate those forward.
But we'll get to that in a little bit.
The Keystone pipeline, I'm very very interested in because it comes into my district.
