For a decade, governments worldwide–already gorged on money and power–have been demanding ever more power under the guise of climate policy. Untold millions–and probably billions–of dollars taken by force from taxpayers have been channeled into research and development of alleged climate science which supports expansive government control over industry and commerce. The most common tool of this government-funded research and development has been modeling: university professors supported by government grants punching hypothetical numbers into computer models.
Unfortunately for the world’s governments, the actual temps appear to be trending lower than even the lowest government-supported-computer-model predictions. And a few scientists have been brave enough to voice disagreement. Such scientists are threatened with loss of career rewards and even physical violence and death in some cases.
Now we hear that another climate blasphemer, professor Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder, is under investigation by a member of the government. The top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, has sent a formal letter to Professor Pielke’s university demanding information about any private sources of funding behind Professor Pielke’s research. This comes in the wake of similar witchhunts last week into the funding sources of another noteworthy science heretic, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon.
