Moral of the story: Even if you still espouse warming BS, you better walk lock-step and say it’s because of humans or else…
Via Watchdog:
Judith Curry, a decorated climate scientist at Georgia Tech, says research tells her the earth is warming.
But she’s isn’t sure how much of a role humans have played.
For that, Curry says, she has been targeted by members of Congress in a new version of McCarthyism.
“It’s ridiculous,” Curry said in a telephone interview Friday. “It’s just ridiculous.”
Curry is one of seven climate scientists whose universities received a letter from U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources. The letter last week questions their impartiality and demands the schools provide Grijalva financial information about the scientists.
“I write today because of concerns raised in a recent New York Times report,” Grijalva said in the letters, “and documents I have received that highlight potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.”
The New York Times reported that Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics failed to disclose $1.2 million in research funding from fossil fuels sources such as ExxonMobil and the Southern Company. Soon has claimed global warming can be explained, in part, by variations in the sun’s energy.
Grijalva told the universities he wants responses by March 16.