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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama Science Advisor John Holdren Schools Political Scientist Roger Pielke On Climate And Drought
Obama Science Advisor John Holdren Schools Political Scientist Roger Pielke On Climate And Drought
By Joe Romm
In an unprecedented move, the Presidents Science Advisor, Dr. John P. Holdren, has published a devastating 6-page debunking of one of the countrys leading climate confusionists, Roger Pielke Jr.
Ill excerpt Holdrens comprehensive critique, Drought and Global Climate Change, below. Worsening drought may be the climate impact that affects the most people in the coming decades, as I discussed in my 2011 literature review in the journal Nature. It is valuable to see the the subject laid out so clearly by the nations top scientist...understanding of drought and climate change is evolving pretty rapidly, so even the latest IPCC reports are already out of date. Having read much of the recent drought literature and interviewed many of the leading drought experts in the last few years, I can say that Holdrens views are right in the mainstream of climatologists view of drought. I can think of no climate scientists who share Pielkes startling assessment of Holdrens views as zombie science....some drought experts believe the situation is considerably worse than is widely understood. As one top researcher on the climate-drought link confirmed with me recently, The U.S. may never again return to the relatively wet conditions experienced from 1977 to 1999.
HOLDREN AND PIELKE
John Holdren is one of the most distinguished scientists in America. He is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of over 200 articles and papers, Holdren is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the U.K.s Royal Society.
I have known Holdren for more than two decades, and not only does he have more breadth of knowledge on all things climate than most, he is very judicious in his choice of words.
Roger Pielke Jr. is a political scientist who has publicly questioned the scientific integrity of more climate scientists than just about anyone else on the planet. He has smeared literally hundreds of scientists (as I document here).
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/03/3349411/john-holdren-roger-pielke-climate-drought/
By Joe Romm
In an unprecedented move, the Presidents Science Advisor, Dr. John P. Holdren, has published a devastating 6-page debunking of one of the countrys leading climate confusionists, Roger Pielke Jr.
Ill excerpt Holdrens comprehensive critique, Drought and Global Climate Change, below. Worsening drought may be the climate impact that affects the most people in the coming decades, as I discussed in my 2011 literature review in the journal Nature. It is valuable to see the the subject laid out so clearly by the nations top scientist...understanding of drought and climate change is evolving pretty rapidly, so even the latest IPCC reports are already out of date. Having read much of the recent drought literature and interviewed many of the leading drought experts in the last few years, I can say that Holdrens views are right in the mainstream of climatologists view of drought. I can think of no climate scientists who share Pielkes startling assessment of Holdrens views as zombie science....some drought experts believe the situation is considerably worse than is widely understood. As one top researcher on the climate-drought link confirmed with me recently, The U.S. may never again return to the relatively wet conditions experienced from 1977 to 1999.
HOLDREN AND PIELKE
John Holdren is one of the most distinguished scientists in America. He is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of over 200 articles and papers, Holdren is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the U.K.s Royal Society.
I have known Holdren for more than two decades, and not only does he have more breadth of knowledge on all things climate than most, he is very judicious in his choice of words.
Roger Pielke Jr. is a political scientist who has publicly questioned the scientific integrity of more climate scientists than just about anyone else on the planet. He has smeared literally hundreds of scientists (as I document here).
- more -
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/03/3349411/john-holdren-roger-pielke-climate-drought/
Drought and Global Climate Change: An Analysis of Statements by Roger Pielke Jr
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/critique_of_pielke_jr_statements_on_drought.pdf
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Obama Science Advisor John Holdren Schools Political Scientist Roger Pielke On Climate And Drought (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2014
OP
ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Another. n/t
sheshe2
(83,730 posts)3. Political Scientist Roger Pielke
is either in denial or the most ignorant man in the world! Sadly for him he has a condition that is not covered under Obamacare.
Good for Dr. John P. Holdren.
thanks PS
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. The more ignorant, the more the RW loves them. n/t