our next witness is dr. curry. >> i'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to present testimony this morning. i'm chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the georgia institute of technology. i've devoted 30 years to conducts research on topics including climate of the arctic, the role of clouds and aerosols on the climate system, and the climate dynamics of extreme weather events. the premise of the president's climate action plan is that there's an overwhelming judgment of science that global warming is already producing devastating impacts. greenhouse warming is a theory whose basic mechanism is well understood, but whose magnitude is highly uncertain. multiple lines of evidence presented in the recent ippc fifth assessment report suggest that the case for anthropogenic warming is weaker than in 2007.

that was dr david currie president and c.e.o. of open doors usa. and the european parliament voted today to authorize the use of prevent courted testimony from former government contractor edward snowden the vote which was held by the parliament's committee on civil liberties justice and home affairs now paves the way for snowden to provide the e.u. with key information dutch liberal m.e.p. sophie into the elder who's the vice chair of the civil liberties committee said snowden's remarks would be quote an opportunity to give citizens across europe the answers they deserve over mass surveillance she also went on to say that she would like to ask snowden why he felt the legal avenues to report abuse were not open to him and whether he feels whistle blowing procedures has now been improved peter oliver is in berlin with more. the e.u. parliament approved plans for an inquiry into just how far the n.s.a. spying program went into looking into the private communications of citizens across the european union now these leaks came out because of the revelat

dr. judith curry and her work at the georgia institute of technology. again, thank you madam chairman for holding this hearing. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses. >> thank you so much, senator. senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much, madam chair. just briefly, welcome our witnesses to this chamber. one in which reality is so often suspended. one in which science is so often twisted and mocked. and one in which the power of special interests to manipulate american democracy is often so nakedly revealed. my belief is that the propaganda machine behind the climate denial effort will go down in history as one of our great american scandals. like tea pot dome. or watergate for that matter. most americans see through it. major american organizations. everything from coke and pepsi to ford and gm to walmart and nike and apple. can go on and on through the corporate community. outside the corporate community, you can go from the joint chiefs of staff to the u.s. conference of catholic bishops to the garden clubs of america. over and over again, o