The weather is not extreme --
but the climate change cult is.
There’s no solid connection between
climate change and extreme weather.
Pielke specialized in natural disasters,
and the damage they inflict.
Pielke spoke publicly last year
about being relentlessly smeared
and slimed by senior Democrats
despite the fact that he has
never once voted Republican.
John Podesta was Hilary Clinton’s
2016 presidential campaign manager.
His other project is the Center for
American Progress (CAP),
“the Democrat’s favorite think tank.”
In Pielke’s words,
between 2007 and 2015,
“CAP wrote more than 161 articles
critical of me, many spreading false
and incorrect representations
of my views. They averaged
an article a week in 2008 and 2009.”
Seven different CAP writers
tried to muzzle Pielke for
“questioning the link
between climate change
and extreme weather”
and for allegedly providing
“cover for climate deniers.”
In an internal 2014 e-mail
( made public by WikiLeaks in 2016 ),
CAP employee Judd Legum boasts
that his part of that organization
got Pielke fired as a contributor
to FiveThirtyEight.com, a website
affiliated with ABC News.
Pielke’s first and only article
at FiveThirtyEight.com,
was titled:
"Disasters Cost
More Than Ever
– But Not Because
of Climate Change."
The article pointed out that
the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
admits there’s scant evidence
of a spike in the frequency
or intensity of floods, droughts,
hurricanes and tornadoes.
Today,
someone searching
on Pielke’s name
at FireThirtyEight.com
is presented with
an editorial by its founder
and editor-in-chief
about Pielke’s article, and
a response to Pielke’s article
by Kerry Emanuel, but no link
to Pielke's article.
In 2015, Pielke was falsely accused
of secretly taking money from
an oil company and investigated
by Congress.
The president of the university
that employs Pielke was advised
in writing that Obama’s White House
science advisor believed Pielke
to be guilty of “serious misstatements.”
Also in 2015, Paige St. John,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist,
discovered that mentioning Pielke
in an article was sufficient to ignite
a campaign against her.
St. John sent Pielke an e-mail saying:
"You should come with a warning label:
Quoting Roger Pielke will bring a hail storm
down on your work from the London Guardian,
Mother Jones and Media Matters."
Pielke once specialized in natural disasters
and the damage they inflict -- he has switched
his research focus to other matters.