It’s hardball time, and things are going to get rough. That’s the current state of the desperate attempt of climate alarmists and their allies in the Obama Administration and sympathetic state pols. Failing to motivate significant public concern about manmade global warming, failing to get even those who express concern to be willing to make significant sacrifices to mitigate it, these political operatives and politicized scientists are resorting to brute force—the very opposite of science.

Shortly after the formation of “Attorneys General United for Clean Power”—their very title (not to mention that Al Gore was at their opening press conference!) blaring the obvious fact that they are all about politics, not law—one of them, the Attorney General for the U.S. Virgin Islands, subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit organization that has provided outstanding scientific and economic pushback against climate alarmism, for a decade’s worth of records related to any funding it might have received from ExxonMobil Corporation. The subpoena is illegal on the face of it, and CEI has hit back, hard—with a not-so-veiled warning that this AG could face legal challenge himself. Click here to come up to speed on the situation.

We encourage you to pray not only for CEI but also all other organizations, and individuals, who have been challenging climate alarmism, including the Cornwall Alliance. The resort to force by the alarmists is actually an encouraging development. It signals that they’ve realized they’re not going to win this debate legitimately, with evidence and logic. But it’s also deeply troubling because of its threat to First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, press, and even religion (for those of us whose religious beliefs contribute to our thinking about global warming), as well as to the health of science, which absolutely depends on free inquiry and open debate.

To learn more about this read “First Amendment Fight: CEI’s Climate Change Subpoena” on cei.org.