CU Professor Says He's Target of Hill 'Witch Hunt' Over Climate Impacts [1]
"DENVER — A University of Colorado environmental studies professor says he is the target of a congressman's "witch hunt" because he expressed doubt in congressional testimony about whether climate change is making natural disasters worse.
Roger Pielke (PELL'-kee) Jr. made his comment this week after Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., asked whether he had any undisclosed funding from fossil fuel companies.
In a letter dated Tuesday, Grijalva, a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, asked the University of Colorado for a list of Pielke's external funding sources. Grijalva cited Pielke's testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in 2013 in which Pielke said it was wrong to blame greenhouse gases for worsening disasters."
Dan Elliott reports for the Associated Press February 27, 2015. [2]
SEE ALSO:
"I Am Under 'Investigation'" (Roger Pielke Jr.'s blog The Climate Fix) [3]
"American Meteorological Society Objects to Congressional Investigation of Its Anti-Science Members" (Hill Heat) [4]
"Del. Professor Caught in Climate Change Controversy" (Wilmington News Journal) [5]
"American Meteorological Society: Dem’s Climate-Funding Probe Sends ‘Chilling Message’" (National Journal) [6]
"Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom" (DeSmogBlog) [7]
"What Happened To the Lobbyists Who Tried To Reshape the US View of Climate Change?" (Guardian) [8]
"The Register’s Editorial: Why Climate Change Deniers Warmed Up To This Scientist" (Des Moines Register) [9]
"Democrats' Climate Probe Brings ‘Witch Hunt’ Accusations" (Politico) [10]
"GOP Accuses Democrat of Trying To 'Silence' Climate Science Skeptics" (The Hill) [11]