Waxman Asks if Pat Michaels Has Misrepresented His Funding [2]
Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, has written [8] to committee Chair Fred Upton (R-MI) requesting an investigation into whether Patrick J. Michaels [9] misled the committee when he reported that only three per cent of his income comes from industry.
Michaels is a famous denier-for-hire [10] who, as Waxman notes, has estimated previously that 40% of his income comes from the energy industry [11]. As the only “scientist” who told the E&C committee that climate change is nothing to worry about, it should be interesting to question whether that opinion was bought and paid for - and by whom - especially when Pat Michaels’ personal accounting seems so casually inaccurate.
Given that Michaels hailed from Virginia, maybe that state’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli [12] would like to join the investigation. He’s all about holding people accountable, isn’t he?
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