Comments Benny Big Eye has made

Marc couldn't have done it without Roger Pielke Jr

Roger Pielke Jr. has a post up trying to "splain himself and his policies.

Here goes....

RPJr: they cannot engage me on the substance, and instead resort to the strategy of "attack the man," probably indicates that they feel that they cannot win an argument on the substance of the matter.

Pot/Kettle/Black. Are you being serious?

RPJr: I was once invited to write a paper for publication in the Cato Institute's journal Regulation.

How much money did the Exxon Mobil funded Cato pay you for your thoughts on climate change?

RPJr: I have testified before Congress at the request of both Democrats and Republicans. Whenever I am invited to testify I recognize full well that the invitation is offered because there is some expectation that my views are somehow politically useful to the party doing the inviting. This is of course how politics in the U.S. Congress actually works, and it goes for every witness ever invited, including scientists and other academics. Thus, I take care in my prepared remarks to clearly spell out my views and their policy implications, based on my expertise and experience. I have never been told what to say, nor has my testimony ever been critiqued or edited beforehand by staff. When I testify you can be sure that my views are my views.

Basically an admission that you were compliant with Republicans using you to undermine a hearing on the Bush Administration's politicization of science in the corporate interest. Good for you!

And so we can all be clear. It is common Hill practice that all written testimony is first approved by the committee. Whether that resulted in you making any changes or not to make the Republicans happy is unknown. We'll take your word on it.

RPJr: People who argue that I have claimed to be an "honest broker" are not telling the truth...

This is true! But you insinuate it nonetheless with your pattern of haranguing other scientists such as Naomi Oreskes, Evan Mills, Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt,Jim Hansen...etc...etc...

RPJr: My policy is that anyone who is written about here on this blog has an open invitation to respond, and we will publish their response unedited as a main line entry.

First bait them, then offer a chance for defense on your home territory. Brilliant.

RPJr: Do recognize that discussing people's actions or words is not an "attack" even if that discussion is critical at times.

Unless the focus of the discussion is the actions or words or Roger Pielke Jr. In that case, it's personal and ad hominem.

RPJr: if you ever notice something that you think is inappropriate, just let me know and we'll deal with it.

Please print out this comment. Put it in your wallet. Pull it our every ten minutes. Read closely. Repeat for the next thirty days.

And please put to rest your the Royal We nonsense.

Benny Big Eye

Too bad

It appears that Roger Pielke Jr. is also getting his panties in a knot now that he is not getting some much needed attention.

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Earth Shaman

troll....tiresome.

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Streetwalker Sims

Nice to see that he's so well employed dropping trou for large corporations.

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Evan Mills

There is a fairly obscure guy at Lawrence Livermore named Evan Mills who has been doing excellent work in this area.

He has published in numerous journals on the effects of extreme weather events on the insurance industry.

http://tinyurl.com/m9ksj

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Kenneth Green and Roger Pielke Jr.

What I've found interesting about Green is that he's been doing the "science is politicized" minstrel show, long before Roger Pielke Jr. even thought up the act.

http://tinyurl.com/39svve

I wonder if he worries that Pielke might be poaching some of his best stuff?

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Welcome back

yes, nyc is great. and the best part is the food. nice post.

caniscandida, once again, you are a pain in the butt. sorry you had to make your plea for attention so public.

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Julia MacDonald AKA, nightelf

I wonder if MacDonald turned over the internal document to her teenage gaming partner for a Bloodmaw Magus Blade. They normally go for 17 gold pieces.

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speaking of government reform committee

Following Roger Pielke Jr.'s latest foray onto the Hill and back into the media spotlight, Eli Rabett has begun looking at how Pielke's provides aid and comfort to the right-wing.

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/03/dear-john.html

Of course, there is so much more. Why doesn't Roger want to admit that he's taken cash from the Cato Insitute? Is he ashamed of something?

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Anthropomorphic Global Warming

Jabailo wrote: "Anthropomorphic [sic] Global Warming is not a fact."

If you're going to come here and start trolling, at least know the difference between "anthropomorphic" and "anthropogenic."

Otherwise, you just look like an ass.

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On the evening news

The only shot of Inhofe's temper tantrum that made its way onto CBS, was the brief aside when Boxer had to pick up her gavel to calm him down.

I think that most journalist saw him as a nut job. Not that I'm trying to sully the name of any nut jobs who might be reading this.

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Call 202-224-4721

Hello, my name is Ima Schmendrick and I'm the East Coast representative of the Flat Earth Society. We're having our annual meeting in Baltimore next month, and after watching Senator Inhofe today in the senate, we were wondering if he could come and give our plenary talk.

It's titled "From Copernicus to Hansen: Four Hundred Years of Junk Science."

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Both articles are poorly done

Every good journalist out there knows that an article that raises questions about scientists creating alarmism about climate change must have a quote from Roger Pielke Jr. and one from his sidekick Kevin Vranes.

To do otherwise, is to violate the ethics of journalism.

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Easterbrook is a tool

Who awoke one day, overwrought with hubris, and concluded just recently that "climate change is real!" And because Easterbrook said it, then it was real.

The guy is an idiot. Only in today's stupid journalism can someone who was wrong for so long, then become a leading thinker.

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everybody does it meme

Gotta' love the attempt to find parity between Phil Cooney and Rick Piltz also. Issa and the other Republicans kept harping on the fact that "Piltz is not a scientist and Cooney is not a scientist, so it's just a draw. Why does everyone keep pointing out that Cooney worked for the American Petroleum Institute which had a written policy of creating doubt about the science of global warming?"

Of course, the first person to try this story line out was....Roger Pielke Jr. on his blog. Who would have ever guessed?

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Issa is out of control

Take a look at his wiki site. The man has problems with guns and anger.

Oops. It appears that someone scrubbed Issa's wiki site and removed his problems with guns. Here's a news story.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/ ...

It does appear that Issa has been better at using these panelist that he was at using Pielke Jr.

http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/hearings/Testimony ...

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not surprised by the outcome

The tobacco companies had a similar campaign of "debate" where they would square off experts on two sides. Once you make something a debate, that really isn't a debate, then you've won.

End of discussion.

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The University of Colorado Media Duo

Something must be wrong at the University of Colorado....They haven't yet put up the link to media faves Pielke/Vranes getting into the New York Times.

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/outreach/news.html

Hmmmmmm.....

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Revkin and Broad

Revkin had a pretty bad piece some time ago that Roberts took apart quite effectively with a strong dose of humor. The difference is that Revkin is a good journalist with a strong track record on climate change who wrote a bad article.

Broad seems to be a guy who is clearly outside his area of expertise and is operating on pure hubris. That article is just garbage and there's nothing funny about it.

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Yes, technology is going to make it all better

If you don't believe me, then go read Pielke Jr.'s blog where he just broke the "adaptation taboo."

What a brave man Pielke is; to boldly go where only industry has gone before.

I sometimes wonder if any "technology solution" for global warming will become some future generation's "new problem." Remember, the greenhouse gases that got us into this mess resulted from us burning carbon to solve a host of problems which allowed us to modernize our society.

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caniscandida, once again

So if you've made the claim multiple times, therefore, your assertion must be true. Got it.

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Tenn Center for Policy Research

What I thought was odd about the group was when I looked at the IRS forms they've filed which are available at Guidestar. Their IRS filings for 2005 show that they took in less than $70,000 and that their end of year balance was less than $30,000.

Also, they didn't pay any staff. So who is paying the people who work for them?

From Deltoid, there is this interesting bit:
http://tinyurl.com/yv9hzs

Douglas Kurdzeil, who is listed as one of their "research fellows", appears to be a sophomore at Vanderbilt. http://tinyurl.com/2kcg3j

Troy Senik, another research fellow, is a graduate student at Pepperdine in Malibu, California. http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/newsevents/news/

So it appears that what most organizations call an "intern" gets a semantic upgrade at TCPR and morphs into a "research fellow."

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Or why not just make like a contrarian

And talk out of both sides of your mouth? That works well to get Roger Pielke Jr. a constant stream of calls from reporters.

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Is anyone surprised

No doubt Roger will be hard at work emailing friends and setting up sock puppets to alter his Wiki bio. When the whole sum of your credibility is based on your ability to sell yourself to the media, then monitoring your internet presence is extremely important.

The boy is just sad....

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Two quick points

Andrew, first there has been a couple of papes looking at whether we might plant aerosols in the upper parts of the atmosphere as a means to offset the heat trapping aspects of CO2. This would involve putting those aerosols high enough so as to not become health pollutants. My concern about this is whether reflecting sunlight might create problems for photosynthetic organisms.

Second, you gotta love the victimology of current skeptics. From the Weekly Standard: "The rollout of the IPCC report and the Guardian story attacking us coincide with the climax of what can be aptly described as a climate inquisition intended to stifle debate about climate science and policy. Anyone who does not sign up 100 percent behind the catastrophic scenario is deemed a "climate change denier."

Well, that's not true, because Roger Pielke Jr. has been taking calls left and right from the press and was even invited to give congressional testimony from the Republicans.

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Having difficulties following this thread

I don't understand Nisbett. I thought the report got a great deal of attention. So count me confused....

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Hard to say what will shake out

Hard to say what will shake out on the Hill. But it appears that we will be in for little movement on a bill that will actually do something about capping greenhouse gases. You can already hear the growing chorus on how capping will endanger the economy, so if Dems move to do just a little bit of a cap to get the ball rolling then the chorus will switch to the Roger Pielke Jr. theme of "well, this won't really have an effect on impacts from climate change."

So it'll probably just end up with a lot of posturing until after 2008.

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Biofuels are the new hype...for a couple of years

Then people will realize that they still release greenhouse gases (although the other pollutants are probably lower) and they will drive up the prices of food commodities.

Then we'll get serious about alternative energy and conservation.

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Continued from above

Didn't post all the stories....
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6321351.stm?ls<...

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IPCC stories in the press

Notice that only the AP report, which is focused on a U.S. audience, spends any time on the "controversy" about hurricanes. I guess it's only American readers that have had trouble grasping the idea that warmer sea surface temperatures might feed more energy into a hurricane system.

From AP
http://tinyurl.com/2ta42y

Financial Times

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6321351.stm?ls<...

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Roger Pielke Jr. invited by GOP

That's what was written by the Associated Press. So if Roger of John Fleck have a problem with that, then they should contact the Associated Press.
http://tinyurl.com/3b25ut

From AP: " Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado who was invited by GOP lawmakers, said, "The reality is that science and politics are intermixed."

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someone needs a lesson in history

jfleck,

How does pointing out that Roger is affiliated with Republicans an ad hom attack. You still haven't answered that.

Does pointing out that Roberts works at Grist also an ad hom?

Your point is a bit opaque. But keep hammering on it over and over again.

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Pielke in bed with the Republicans

This is really no big surprise. Just Google Pielke Jr.'s name and you'll notice that he's the sweetheart of the right on climate change.

I can only guess that Pielke will come up with a "but I get invitations to talk from ALL across the political spectrum" excuse.

Right.

He got an "invitation" to write for the Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine, and now he's getting an "invitation" to speak from the Republicans in Washington. I'm sure there's no direct link.

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a little confusing

jfleck, have you bothered to go and look at the comments appearing on Heidi Cullen's blog after she was linked to on Limbaugh's site?

I don't think that the "Limbaugh hordes" are some kooky manifestation of a paranoid mind.

Instead of "straw man," why not try "straw men," since there are over 1000 comments beating up on her? That would be a little more honest.

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Warren T. Brookes Fellow

Bailey writes: "In 1993, I accepted the offer to become the first Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). CEI allowed me several months to do research for a technology policy book that unfortunately I was never able to finish."

Well, a quick peek into the Legacy Tobacco Documents and you find Fred Smith of CEI sending a letter to Tom Borelli asking for more tobacco money.

See here: http://tinyurl.com/rm2d6

In the letter, Smith dang...

Fumento, Malkin, Berlau, etc....

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Some of that crazy language

From the WSJ story: "Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving to ramp up debates on energy and how to curb so-called greenhouse gases, which most scientists believe are accelerating global warming..."

What is meant by "so-called greenhouse gases"? Does this imply that they don't exist?

And WTF with "most scientists believe", as if there is this huge debate that is not based on science but on "beliefs"?

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Link to the press release

There's no link to the press release....

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