More studies rebut climate change consensus amid government crackdown on dissent

The Washington Times reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by Attorney General Claude Walker. 

The latest government crackdown on climate dissent, exemplified by last week’s subpoena of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, comes amid a surge of scientific research that pokes holes in the catastrophic climate change consensus.

While Exxon Mobil has denounced the accusations as “preposterous,” Mr. Walker followed up Thursday with a subpoena calling for the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s work on climate and energy policy from 1997 to 2007, including the nonprofit’s “private donor information,” the institute said.

“We are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent market where consumers can make informed choices about what they buy and from whom,” Mr. Walker said in a statement. “If Exxon Mobil has tried to cloud their judgment, we are determined to hold the company accountable.”

The Competitive Enterprise Institute denounced the subpoena as “the latest effort in an intimidation campaign to criminalize speech and research on the climate debate, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore.”

“No matter what you feel, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative libertarian think tank dedicated to free enterprise and limited government, is absolutely entitled to take the views that it does, to argue its views, and to be as wrong as it wants to be,” lawyer Scott H. Greenfield said on the Simple Justice blog.

Read the full article at the Washinton Times.