If it wasn’t for his obsession with “decarbonization” and unshakeable belief in its righteousness despite all evidence… Oh well, Junior can still come up with plenty of interesting stuff:
I received the thoughtful comment below from a reader down under about my ANU talk on The Climate Fix. At almost the exact [s]ame time, I received an email from another reader who explained that he recommended the talk to two atmospheric scientists at a US state department of environmental protection, who refused to watch it because I do not “acknowledge atmospheric science data” — whatever that means
As a policy scholar you quickly learn that some people are willing to engage and others are not (and it can be surprising who falls into which category). Win some, lose some!
I’ll gladly take a Pielke, with whom we can reason and come to conclusions about, and I am perfectly ready to accept him, even if I disagree with many of his points. I don’t agree with you all the time, either, Editor. I much rather him than the greens, who will brand me as evil and scream at me simply for wearing coveralls on campus. (Fortunately, I was on the fencing team and openly carrying a trio of swords. Otherwise, it might have come to blows then and there.)
Indeed Ben and I frequently feature Pielke Jr.’s items here, only disagreeing with a portion of them (alright, 50/50, probably). He is, however, blinkered over “decarbonization” as a self-evident good, which is where he strays into zealotry or at least obsession and that is a great pity. He’s no orphan in that respect though and the next time I’m accused of zealotry over vaccination as a societal responsibility certainly won’t be the first