{"id":16945,"date":"2016-10-27T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2016-10-27T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:24:17","slug":"wikileaks-email-details-bullying-silencing-of-cu-professor-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/wikileaks-email-details-bullying-silencing-of-cu-professor-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks email details bullying, silencing of CU professor on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change alarmists have taken to bullying to silence opposing voices. (Flickr \/ Soumyadeep Paul, Creative Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The latest batch of emails released by WikiLeaks from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign manager, contain a local connection.\u00a0 A message received by Podesta details how climate change alarmists launched a concerted effort to keep a University of Colorado professor from publishing his views on manmade climate change.<\/p>\n

Holding degrees in mathematics, public policy and political science, Roger Pielke, Jr. is a well-respected professor at CU<\/a>.\u00a0 Using statistical analysis, he has authored many papers and books debunking some of the more outrageous claims purveyors of the manmade climate change theory use to scare the populace.<\/p>\n

Pielke apparently was seen as a threat to alarmists after publishing a story to fivethirtyeight.com<\/a> in March 2014 disputing the claim that disasters are becoming more expensive due to climate change.<\/p>\n

The professor used imperial data to determine, \u201cWhen you read that the cost of disasters is increasing, it\u2019s tempting to think that it must be because more storms are happening. They\u2019re not. All the apocalyptic \u201cclimate porn\u201d in your Facebook feed is solely a function of perception. In reality, the numbers reflect more damage from catastrophes because the world is getting wealthier. We\u2019re seeing ever-larger losses simply because we have more to lose \u2014 when an earthquake or flood occurs, more stuff gets damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

This did not fit the narrative of those that believe manmade climate change is the greatest threat to the Earth of the century.<\/p>\n

Judd Legum, editor of ThinkProgress, sent an email to Podesta<\/a> as well as billionaire Tom Steyer detailing Legum\u2019s organization\u2019s efforts to silence Pielke.\u00a0 He brags that ThinkProgress was successful in ensuring, \u201cPielke never wrote another piece on climate change for 538.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steyer is a name that should be familiar with Coloradans.\u00a0 The San Francisco-based billionaire and environmental activist has spent millions of dollars in Colorado elections<\/a>, trying to influence their outcomes.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Ironically, Pielke has been a voice of reason and moderation in the sometimes-raucous debate about manmade climate change.\u00a0 He actually favors a carbon tax and has advocated for removing any incentives for fossil fuels and replacing them with a push for renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n

Pielke told the Boulder Daily Camera<\/a>, “They were ultimately successful in removing an academic from working on a topic,\u201d as he has moved on to other areas of study.\u00a0 There\u2019s, \u201cnothing like a political witch hunt to help you focus on career priorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“It spells out in black and white … that there was an organized, politically motivated campaign to damage my career and reputation, based on a perception that my academic research was thought to be inconvenient.”<\/p>\n

The fact that a member of academia could be silenced is troubling but it also fits the new way that climate cha<\/span><\/span>n<\/span><\/span>ge<\/span><\/span> alarmists have chosen to battle those that disagree with them: Don’t\u00a0debate the topic on its merits, instead simply shut down the opposition.<\/p>\n

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