Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher.
Roger Pielke Jr.’s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“My views are entirely mainstream,” says Pielke. “My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC. There’s nothing contrarian.”
Both Steyer and Pielke agree that “greenhouse gases warm the climate,” but Pielke’s sin was saying, “it’s not the apocalypse.”
Because of that, “the Center for American Progress decided to make me a target,” he says.
The center is a lefty group that pushes climate hysteria, running articles claiming, “Climate change is fueling more deadly and destructive floods,” “Extreme weather is only intensifying,” etc.
Anyone who disagrees is labeled a “climate denier.”
Steyer, now running for governor of California, gave the center enough money to run hit piece after hit piece that describes Pielke’s work as “fantastical falsehoods,” and calls him a “disinformer” who “ignores the data on climate science.”
Pielke didn’t know who funded the smears until WikiLeaks revealed an email to Steyer from ThinkProgress’s editor: “Thanks for your support of this work … it’s fair to say, without Climate Progress, Pielke would still be writing on climate change.”
Think about that.
“Progressive” activists are proud to stop a researcher from writing about what he knows.
Pielke describes his persecution in my new video.
It began after Al Gore’s Oscar-winning movie in which Gore claimed that temperature increases create stronger storms.
Pielke had the nerve to disagree.
Hellbound and Down 