"Your Sources or Your Life"

Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at Colorado University's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, announced on his blog that he is "one of seven U.S. academics being investigated by U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva," an Arizona Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. "Here," he writes, "is my crime":
His 2013 Senate testimony that "featured the claim, often repeated, that it is 'incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases.'"
The government is investigating him for his opinion.

Pielke does not consider himself a denier or even a skeptic of man-made global warming, though he has, for example, questioned surface temperature data and cast a suspicious eye toward Britain's Climate Research Unit, which claimed it lost original records Pielke wanted to see.
At the same time, Pielke acknowledges that he has "written a book calling for a carbon tax," "publicly supported President Obama's proposed EPA carbon regulations," and "published another book strongly defending the scientific assessment of the IPCC with respect to disasters and climate change."

Grijalva demands to know about Pielke's external funding sources. Wei-Hock Soon,  a PhD in aerospace engineering at the Harvard-Smithsonian, was recently attacked in the NYT for his contention that the sun, not man, is responsible for climate change. The NYT says he is compromised by  fossil fuel interests.

I hope the SEIU doesn't show up at their in-laws' homes.