Roy and the rest of y’all will get a laugh out of this introductory paragraph in this news story from Chronicle of Higher Education (subscriber site) today:
In a sign of how climate science has grown increasingly political, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating three professors whose work suggests that the earth’s climate is warmer now than at any time in many centuries and that increasing levels of greenhouse gases from burning fossils fuels are largely to blame.
What apparently aren’t “signs” are the following other things mentioned in the article:
… the work of Mr. Mann and his colleagues has served as a lightning rod for attacks by skeptics of greenhouse warming, in part because their early studies in 1998 and 1999 figured prominently in a 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-sponsored group known as the IPCC….
Mr. Barton worked in the oil-and-gas industry before being elected to Congress, in 1984. In the past decade, he has consistently ranked as one of the top five recipients of campaign contributions from that industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in politics.
Apparently the CHE reporter shares the same belief of the leftists at UNC-Chapel Hill: money from business and individuals is suspect, while government funding is apolitical.
