Stage effects at infamous climate hearing didn't happen

摘要

Everybody implicated in a scheme to heat up the room during an infamous Senate climate change hearing in the 1980s acknowledged that rumors of windows left open and air conditioning manipulation were fiction. Last week, The Washington Post's Fact Checker took Secretary of State John Kerry to task for repeatedly claiming he had organized the historic hearing in which former NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies head James Hansen testified he was 99 percent certain that humans were causing global warming (Greenwire, March 18).