My recent report, The Hounding of Roger Pielke Jr., demonstrates that you can be 90% in tune with the climate movement, and yet still be persecuted by it. Viciously. Venomously. Relentlessly.
Pielke, a natural disasters expert, thinks human-generated carbon dioxide is a problem. His 2010 book, The Climate Fix, argues in favor of a carbon tax.
Rather than being a climate skeptic, he wants what most climate activists want: decarbonization of the global economy.
What Pielke has endured for more than a decade exposes the ugly reality of climate activism. This is a profoundly intolerant, drearily dogmatic movement.
Ninety percent agreement isn’t sufficient. Anything short of 100% and you’re considered an enemy – someone to be targeted and destroyed.
Climate activists think they occupy the moral high ground. They imagine themselves marching toward a more equitable, sustainable world.
But you don’t achieve a bright future by demonizing people for small differences of opinion. You don’t improve the world via witch hunts, blacklists, and cruelty.
Please note that the environmental studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where Pielke is employed, is failing miserably at basic common decency. Nevertheless, it considers itself oh-so-virtuous.
Take a look at its main web page. For the past 17 months, that page has been dominated by an enormous statement in support of Black Lives Matter.
Never mind that the connection to environmental studies is tenuous. Never mind that the trial concerning the death of George Floyd ended seven months ago. Never mind that two new academic years have launched since that statement was first posted.
How’s that for grotesque? A university department practicing organized, despicable cruelty is piously condemning institutional malfeasance “in the strongest possible terms.”
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Even if you made all the (impossible) changes demanded by the alarmists – they would just move the goalposts and invent new requirements.
Its a mistake to even negotiate with zealots – it’s easier just to ignore them. That makes them angrier – but most everything does in any case.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.” Sir Winston Churchill.
We don’t need a stupid Carbon Tax why should we be forced to pay a tax on traveling its bad enough the price for Gasoline is higher because of Biden’s Stupidity and the usial tax & Spend of the Liberal Democrats(Stupid Jackass Party)and a fake crisis
Actually the difference between Professor Pielke and the rest of the climate change movement is pretty significant. Mr. Pielke believes that extreme weather events are not becoming more common. By the way, that is also what the IPCC fifth assessment report said. If believed, this has a huge potential impact. Developing nations are demanding billions of dollars of compensation for the impacts of climate change. However, if extreme weather events are not becoming more common, then this demand has no basis. We need to remember that like so many agendas, climate change is merely an excuse for what people want to do anyway. Feeling guilty about the colonial past, many desire to transfer huge sums of money to developing nations. Some have other motivations. Professor Pielke is undermining their justification.
If anyone should feel guilty about their past colonialism, it is France. The British used to boast that the sun never set on their empire. The sun has since gone down, but the Brit’s, like the Romans, left behind something that lasted. The USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and India all benefited from British rule .
France left Haiti, Libya, Vietnam, Sudan and Quebec etc with not much to go on.
How will the world benefit from Chinese rule? It’s time to get serious about the answer. Appeasement is surrender.