On Monday
I posted a short article
describing leftist attacks
on Professor Roger Pielke, Jr.
for not promoting the leftist
narrative about climate change.
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/07/climate-change-fascism-true-story-of.html
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/07/climate-change-fascism-true-story-of.html
The attacks, led by the
Obama White House,
and leading Democratic
congressmen, drove
Roger Peilke Jr.
away from the study
of extreme weather
and climate change
in 2015.
It was a depressing article,
and I never got around
to explaining what
Pielke said and wrote
that angered so many
leftists:
SUMMARY:
There’s no connection between
climate change and extreme
weather, such as hurricanes,
tornadoes, droughts, rainfall
and floods.
The continual leftist claims
of such links are fake news.
Many scientists know better,
but remain silent, fearing
career-threatening attacks,
like professor Pielke faced.
And that intimidation, folks,
is climate change fascism.
Fascism requires
"correct thinking",
or punishment.
THE SCIENCE:
There’s no evidence
of any long-term
global trends
in extreme events
such as droughts,
hurricanes and floods.
-- There’s no trend
in U.S. hurricane
landfall frequency,
or intensity --
in fact, the past 50 years
have been relatively quiet.
-- There’s no trend
in hurricane-related
flooding in the U.S.,
or any global increase
in flooding.
Although 2019 has been
a very bad year for flooding
in the US Midwest,
U.S. flood damage
prior to 2019, as a
percentage of GDP
had fallen to less than
0.05% per year,
from about
0.2% per year.
-- There’s no trend
in U.S. tornado damage
( in fact, 2012 to 2017
was below average ).
-- There’s no trend
in global droughts.
-- The U.S. has had
fewer cold snaps,
but heat waves
are way down
from the 1930s:
DETAILS:
Roger Pielke Jr. is a scientist
at University of Colorado in Boulder
who used to do world-leading research
on climate change, and extreme weather.
He found that higher rates of
weather-related damages worldwide
were due to population growth
and economic growth -- adjust for
both factors, and the higher rate
of weather-related damages
disappears.
As a young researcher, Pielke
helped organize the Hohenkammer
Consensus Statement,
named after the German town
where, in 2006, 32 leading scientists
in the field reviewed the evidence.
They concluded
increased population
and economic activity
in the path of storms,
led to more damage
from the storms,
and if any portion
of the damage
was attributable to
greenhouse gases,
it was not obvious.
The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
released its 2007 report,
largely agreeing with the
Hohenkammer Consensus.
But one IPCC lead author
didn't like that Consensus,
so he injected his own
unpublished study,
suggesting a link between
greenhouse gases and
storm-related damages.
That IPCC lead author
later admitted his claim
was wrong, and when his study
was finally published, it denied
the connection.
In 2012, the IPCC Special Report
on Extreme Weather agreed with
the Hohenkammer Consensus.
In 2013, Pielke testified to the
United States Congress to
relay the IPCC findings.
Obama’s science advisor,
John Holdren, accused him
of misleading Congress,
launched a character attack,
and got congressional Democrats
to investigate Pielke’s sources
of funding ( they found nothing
wrong ).
Heavily funded leftist groups
got Pielke fired from a popular
internet news platform, and
under great leftist pressure,
Pielke quit the climate field
in 2015.