We thought this story was about tonight’s hockey game.

The Globe op-ed page features a column on Raymond Bradley. The UMass climatologist is co-author of a graph known as “the hockey stick,” which shows of the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere shot up in the 20th century after 100 years of stability. He has a new book out on his political battles with climate change doubters — Global Warming and Political Intimidation: How Politicians Cracked Down as the Earth Heated Up.

Bradley’s book describes the shock of being yanked out of the scholarly realm and into the arena of partisan politics. Of being investigated by Barton’s House Energy Committee, Bradley said, "You realize they have infinite power, and they can ruin you — and they would have, if not for the strength of Sherwood Boehlert,‘’ the Republican Congressman from New York who stood up to Barton. "Boehlert’s words should be etched on the portals of every science building in the country,‘’ writes Bradley, "next to a big image of a thumb pushing down on the balance of scientific inquiry: ’Seeking scientific truth is too important to be impeded by political expediency. When it comes to scientific debates, Congress is all thumbs.’