«The issue of me running for
political office frequently comes up because I am constantly touring around, giving speeches and raising money for the party,» he said in a statement.
«In this case the assessment reaches conclusions inconvenient for
political advocates on both sides — but that is how science works,» said Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a
political science professor at the University of Colorado — Boulder, who's been writing on the evolution of the global change research
office since its early days and has
frequently been called on by Republicans in Congress to testify about climate policy.