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Anti-Authoritarian Professor Challenges Climate Crisis Narrative, Now He’s A Racist ‘Denier’

by Kevin Killough
May 22, 2023, 8:48 AM
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wielickiGeochemistry professor Dr. Matt Wielicki is a loud skeptic of the dominating narratives on climate. But in some circles, speaking his name is a call for pitchforks and torches.

Wielicki’s crime is questioning the hyperbole surrounding the climate crisis.

He doesn’t dispute that carbon dioxide impacts climate and that temperatures are rising. [emphasis, links added]

He argues that there’s little evidence that the impacts of climate change are creating a catastrophe that could reasonably be described as a crisis.

Smears

Penn State Professor of Atmospheric Science Dr. Micheal E. Mann — famous for the “hockey stick” graph of temperatures for the last 2,000 years —- smeared Wielicki’s career in academia.

Some screenshots of tweets from @MichaelEMann. If you have evidence of other abusive behavior please screenshot and post in the comments. If he was so confident in his science would he need to attack colleagues? #climate pic.twitter.com/mZuSIYhxm5

— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) May 16, 2023

Media Matters, a George Soros-funded lobbying organization, wrote a hit piece on his growing popularity, accusing him of spreading “climate disinformation” based on the accusations of an anonymous Twitter account.

And multiple climate scientists across Twitter have included him in a coordinated effort to block accounts that dispute the climate crisis as part of a campaign to game the platform’s analytics so that these accounts have lower levels of engagement.

There is a concerted and well-funded effort to silence dissenting voices in climate science by gaming the algorithm with apps like blockparty and the support of leading scientists 👇. We need a concerted effort to fight back against this. Comment and retweet and I will follow… pic.twitter.com/S6Od6YJesT

— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) May 15, 2023

While those who promote the climate-crisis narrative consider him a peddler of falsehoods, he has a large following on social media, he’s received largely favorable reviews from his students, and he’s made frequent appearances on FOX News and other media organizations which allow for actual debate on a topic, rather than adherence to one allowed narrative.

Fleeing Communism

Wielicki was born in communist Poland, and his family’s efforts to escape to the West planted seeds that grew into a tendency to stand up to the status quo.

Both his parents were educated in the Polish university system before the Iron Curtain fell, and they lived under the menacing eye of the government. It was a time when academics who questioned the party line ended up behind bars.

“There was no academic freedom. There was no freedom of expression,” Wielicki told Cowboy State Daily. …

Starting Over

Eventually, the three of them were able to work their way through the Polish bureaucracy to join Wielicki’s father in the U.S. After all they went through for what was supposed to be a three-week visit, the family decided they couldn’t go back to Poland. …

The experience of escaping a communist country made him wary of authority his whole life.

“I think it’s definitely influenced the way I view the system we’re in now,” he said.

College Bound

Wielicki’s father later landed a tenure-track position at California State University-Fresno, where he would work for 30 years and retire.

That’s where Wielicki grew up. …

He graduated from high school in 1996. Having two parents with advanced degrees, he was college bound from there.

He studied biochemistry and eventually pursued a degree in geochemistry starting in 2008 at the University of California Los Angeles.

Long-Term Implications

It was at that point Wielicki said he started to get some uncomfortable vibes from the world of academia.

While he was getting his Ph.D., he pursued teaching positions at community colleges. As part of the application process, he had to make diversity statements.

“As a white guy, I felt a little strange, but I always could play up the immigrant card,” Wielicki said. “But the truth is, I was just jumping through the hoops. This is what I have to do, so I did it. I wasn’t really thinking about the long-term implications.”

He said that began to change when his wife had their first child in 2015. He started to think about the societal ramifications of what were essentially loyalty statements to an ideology he didn’t entirely agree with.

“It seemed to me that they were repeating the mistakes of my home country,” Wielicki said.

He started to question basing scholastic achievement on factors other than merit, and he began raising his concerns with other faculty members.

“There was no free exchange of ideas,” he said about how his views were received. “If you just bring up these points, you’re basically shunned.”

Bummed Out

In 2016, he landed an assistant professor position at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he taught earth science.

Wielicki wasn’t speaking up too loudly at that point about his concerns over the doomsday climate change narrative being pushed as he wanted to get tenure.

At the same time, he wanted a classroom where success was based on merit — such as in which students worked in his lab — in an environment that more and more equated such decisions with racism.

At the same time, white males were being blamed for all the world’s problems, he said.

With two white sons at home, he began to worry about participating in the ideology that advanced the prejudice against white males and undermined a meritocracy.

“It’s not helping to [move into] what we would think of as a free, capitalist society where we’re judging people on their work ethic,” Wielicki said. “Instead, we’re judging people on immutable characteristics over which they have no control. And that bummed me out.”

Escalation

The situation began to escalate with the COVID pandemic and the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who died while being arrested for attempting to make a purchase with a fake $20 bill.

The incident led to the rise of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 summer riots.

Wielicki said that, up until that point, the science, technology, and math (STEM) fields had been largely immune to the worst of the wokeness of academia.

“It became a singular focus in academia that everything was going to be framed through this lens of race,” Wielicki said. …

Drumbeat Of Catastrophism 

At the same time, Wielicki said he began to talk to his students about climate change.

In an interview in December, Wielicki said he’d have class over Zoom during the pandemic lockdown days, and he started to learn some concerning things about how the students viewed their future with climate change.

Many weren’t planning on raising families, fearing the world would end or their children would further its demise. They had little ambition to succeed in a world that was doomed.

He said he started to see there was a real mental health crisis among college students.

“And part of it is the neverending drumbeat of catastrophism,” Wielicki said. “Every weather event is catastrophized as more evidence the planet is going to hell.”

The problem was that the science didn’t support such a conclusion, he said.

Hurricane frequency and intensity aren’t increasing. The normalized cost of disasters from natural disasters has declined, and the number of climate-related deaths has fallen 98% since 1920.

By many other markers, the human race is doing great, and Wielicki wanted his students to believe in their future.

So, he began to dispute the catastrophizing of the climate crisis movement on social media, including TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.

Labels

For challenging the climate crisis narrative, Wielicki’s been labeled a “science denier.” He calls himself a climate realist.

For questioning the wisdom of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology, and arguing that it doesn’t create a more equal society, he’s been labeled a right-wing racist.

Wielicki is probably best described as anti-authoritarian. On his Twitter feed, he’s argued for positions that many liberals would support, including the legalization of marijuana and making legal immigration easier.

But giving interviews on Fox and One America News didn’t make it easy for him in the world of academia, where conformity with liberal politics is more-or-less required. After years of dealing with the backlash, he decided to leave.

This month, he gave his last class at the University of Alabama.

Top photo shows Dr. Matt Wielicki (L), Tibet field season 2014


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    My oldest son is 32 years old and a software engineer. He says that now he could never make it because of the discrimination against whites.

  3. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    To the Eco-Freaks rejecting Global warming/Climate Change is sacrilegious and a Sin against their phony Earth Religion and their false gods of the Earth, Sky and Sea

  4. Sonnyhill says:
    2 years ago

    People who don’t bring children into this world because they fear that catastrophic climate change would endanger their family would have had stupid, low IQ progeny anyway.
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    “Climate crisis”like a nightmare, is not real but, in contrast, costs you plenty, even if you are not deceived.

  6. Dr Ken Pollock says:
    2 years ago

    The whole climate crisis rests on two things: 1. weather records that show that there is NO CHANGE over the last 200 year or so. Does anyone really believe there were no droughts in Africa before now? Read the Bible – 7 good years, followed by 7 years of drought! 2. the results of “models” which strangely enough ALWAYS predict worse changes that actually happen – but climate scientists have short memories and never accept their earlier model were wrong! And remember the use of the term “tipping point”! No such thing in nature, but a scary idea to get politicians to decide on daft policies…

  7. Dr Ken Pollock says:
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    100% behind Dr Wielicki on this. I wish i could say that the atmosphere in the UK was different, but it is not. I know of a university lecturer who left to avoid the left wing bias – and then have students agree, but who say they must remain silent. Re Dr Mann, read my Amazon review of “The New Climate War” and Mann’s idea that “unprecedented” means new to him and he’s not looking for weather records that might probe him wrong!

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