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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desmog Blog continues to profile climate and energy realists as if their views (against climate exaggeration and magical energy policy) were prima facie proof of wrongdoing. MasterResource has documented many Desmog backfires where the evidence presented would be pretty much accepted by the targeted person\u2013and most folks outside of the Climate Industrial Complex (including academics wed to \u2018the cause\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, the DeSmog hit list has expanded to suggest a majority<\/em>. The waiting list for inclusion is huge. I have suggested that many more be profiled as a badge of honor, of courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the latest: a repeat on Roger Pilke Jr. that presents his legitimate, common-sense views. The open-minded alarmist is invited to follow Pielke\u2019s empirically derived research to cure \u201cclimate anxiety,\u201d in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSmog begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roger Pielke Jr.<\/strong><\/a> is a climate science policy writer who formerly worked at the University of Colorado Boulder before leaving academia in 2024 to join the American Enterprise Institute as a nonresident senior fellow. According to his bibliographic notes, he started studying extreme weather and climate in 1991 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. He discusses his views on climate policy in the book The Climate Fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Pielke Jr. argues that he is not a climate change skeptic, and accepts that man-made climate change is a real problem, he has consistently opposed the idea that extreme weather events and climate change are connected, calling the latter \u201czombie science.\u201d Critics have noted that Pielke Jr.\u2019s work has often been cited by climate crisis deniers. Pielke\u2019s father, Roger A. Pielke Sr., is also an outspoken critic of the United Nation\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Pielke Jr. is a prolific author on blogs including The Least Thing, Roger Pielke Jr, and The Honest Broker.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

True, true, true. Now comes the first criticism\u2013by one of the least credible alarmist barkers, Joe Romm (whose low-level scholarship has been repeatedly exposed<\/a> by Pielke).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Romm at ThinkProgress <\/em>writes <\/a>that \u201cthe websites that most prominently feature or reprint Pielke\u2019s attacks are climate denial sites like WattsUpWithThat <\/em>and ClimateDepot<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romm describes him as \u201cprobably the single most disputed and debunked person in the science blogosphere, especially on the subject of extreme weather and climate change.\u201d Romm also notes that Roger Pielke Jr. was included on Foreign Policy<\/em>\u2018s 2010 \u201cGuide to Climate Skeptics\u201d<\/a> \u2014 something that Pielke informed FP that he strongly objected to.11<\/a><\/sup> 12<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Romm has yet to look in the mirror to review his decades-long history of climate exaggeration and falsified predictions<\/a>. Pielke relies on data (what has actually happened) instead of climate model projections on what \u201cshould\u201d happen. The scientific method applies here in favor of Pielke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSmog\u2019s documentation of Pielke continues<\/a> with numerous quotations that, once again, would probably elicit a response from him of \u201cso what\u201d or \u201cand\u201d \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSmog is invited to keep expanding their \u201cdenier spotlight\u201d list and providing documentation. The truth sometimes works in funny ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appendix: Other DeSmog posts at MasterResource:<\/p>\n\n\n\n