BOULDER — The Arizona congressman who last week asked the University of Colorado to disclose the sources of funding for professor Roger Pielke Jr. now admits an additional request for communications regarding such funding was an “overreach” — but defended the search as an effort to seek important disclosures for figures in the climate change debate.
Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva last week sent letters to seven universities — including CU — that employed researchers who have been skeptical or controversial in their positions on climate change to determine whether any had received research funding from fossil fuel companies.
In the letters, Grijalva asked the universities to disclose all sources and amounts of external funding for those professors, as well as any communications regarding the funding or testimony by the professors to Congress or other bodies.
Pielke — who directs CU’s Center for Science Technology Policy Research — has written extensively on climate change economics, and testified before Congress that it is incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases.
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