Labeled a Climate Heretic for challenging the Climate Change narrative on extreme weather

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My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic
My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House.
By ROGER PIELKE JR.
Dec. 2, 2016 7:05 p.m. ET

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I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax. But my research led me to a conclusion that many climate campaigners find unacceptable: There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally. In fact we are in an era of good fortune when it comes to extreme weather. This is a topic I’ve studied and published on as much as anyone over two decades. My conclusion might be wrong, but I think I’ve earned the right to share this research without risk to my career.

Instead, my research was under constant attack for years by activists, journalists and politicians. In 2011 writers in the journal Foreign Policy signaled that some accused me of being a “climate-change denier.” I earned the title, the authors explained, by “questioning certain graphs presented in IPCC reports.” That an academic who raised questions about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in an area of his expertise was tarred as a denier reveals the groupthink at work.

Yet I was right to question the IPCC’s 2007 report, which included a graph purporting to show that disaster costs were rising due to global temperature increases. The graph was later revealed to have been based on invented and inaccurate information, ....

The IPCC never acknowledged the snafu, but subsequent reports got the science right: There is not a strong basis for connecting weather disasters with human-caused climate change.

Full article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic-1480723518

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Nothing much has changed in 600 or so years.

'Religious heresy' has been replaced by 'scientific heresy'.  God has been replaced by 'Gaia' or 'mother Earth.'  The 'Wittenburg Church door' has been replaced by the doors of so-called academia and the White House.  Going against 'group think' still gets one sent to the outer darkness. But 'hell' has been replaced by the fires of no funding and smug ridicule by one's peers.

Perhaps it's time for the author to write 95 thesis . . . 

Blessings,

-Ed