Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. believes "human-caused climate change is real and poses significant risks" and thinks "mitigation and adaptation should be policy priorities." From 1993--2001 he was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a premier site for American computer climate modeling. He's the author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (2007, Cambridge University Press), The Climate Fix: What … [Read more...]
Is the Democratic Party’s Climate and Energy Platform Defensible?
Pressured by radical environmentalists and multi-billionaires like Tom Steyer who stand to profit, the Democratic Party has issued a new platform statement on climate and energy: Moving beyond the “all of the above” energy approach in the 2012 platform, the 2016 platform draft re-frames the urgency of climate change as a central challenge of our time, already impacting American communities and calling for generating 50 percent clean electricity within the next ten years. The Committee … [Read more...]
Billionaire Tom Steyer Spends $20 million on Televised Smear Campaigns
Originally Published on Townhall.com Tom Steyer is perpetually in the news–promising to raise $100 million to fight climate skeptics in this campaign cycle. Well, he is fighting, but not with $100 million (he’s had trouble finding backers for his super PAC NextGen Climate Action). Tom Steyer has thus far spent $20 million on TV ads that either tell bald-faced lies, or use out-of-context sound bites to present a far from truthful story. In Florida, Politifact.com and Factcheck.com gave … [Read more...]