CU Professor Says He's Target of Hill 'Witch Hunt' Over Climate Impacts

"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.

SEE ALSO:

"I Am Under 'Investigation'" (Roger Pielke Jr.'s blog The Climate Fix)

"American Meteorological Society Objects to Congressional Investigation of Its Anti-Science Members" (Hill Heat)

"Del. Professor Caught in Climate Change Controversy" (Wilmington News Journal)

"American Meteorological Society: Dem’s Climate-Funding Probe Sends ‘Chilling Message’" (National Journal)

"Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom" (DeSmogBlog)

"What Happened To the Lobbyists Who Tried To Reshape the US View of Climate Change?" (Guardian)

"The Register’s Editorial: Why Climate Change Deniers Warmed Up To This Scientist" (Des Moines Register)

"Democrats' Climate Probe Brings ‘Witch Hunt’ Accusations" (Politico)

"GOP Accuses Democrat of Trying To 'Silence' Climate Science Skeptics" (The Hill)