Warmists Force Roger Pielke Jr To Quit FiveThirtyEight Blog
By Paul Homewood
Breitbart carry the story of how Roger Pielke Jr was forced out of writing for the FiveThirtyEight blog, for not toeing the party line.
Environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr. has quit Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog over a controversy that arose after he wrote a post denying that global warming is responsible for the increasing costs of recovery from natural disasters.
Pielke, a professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), reported to Discover Magazine that over the last month he began to find that his work was being rejected by FiveThirtyEight. So, he told editor Mike Wilson that he quit.
The controversy grew after Pielke posted a March 19 story he entitled, "Disasters Cost More Than Ever–But Not Because of Climate Change."
As soon as he posted the piece, the laymen critics in Silver’s audience began to attack him for daring to deviate from the idea that global warming causes all of the earth’s ills.
In his interview at Discovery, Pielke lamented the editorial cowardice of Nate Silver, who sat back and allowed Pielke’s critics to go so far as to organize an effort to have him fired at the blog, not to mention ultimately showing reluctance to support him by posting new pieces.
"I do wish that 538 had shown a bit more editorial backbone, but hey, it is his operation. If a widely published academic cannot publish on a subject which he has dozens of peer-reviewed papers and 1000s of citations to his work, what can he write on?" Pielke said.
The professor also said that he has a suspicion that Silver "knows very well where the evidence lies on this topic" but refused to fully support him over the whole thing for whatever reason.
Pielke also criticized the whole atmosphere at the blog, saying, "For me, if the price of playing in the DC-NYC data journalism world is self-censorship for fear of being unpopular, then it is clearly not a good fit for any academic policy scholar."
Pielke was pilloried as a global warming denier–something he most decidedly is not–by such luminaries as Paul Krugman, Slate, and others after the original post went viral. Pielke said that he was shocked at how some of these people and outlets lied about him.
As he told Discovery, "It is remarkable to see people like Paul Krugman and John Holdren brazenly make completely false claims in public about my work and my views. That they make such false claims with apparently no consequences says something about the nature of debate surrounding climate."
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Totalitarist attitude: “We are right, tremendously right, hence others are wrong”.
One further step: “We shall not let propagate their wrong thinkings”: Here we already are.
Next step: “We shall burn them, like Bruno in 1601”.
He’s not alone. This came in today:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5133/global_warming_orthodoxy_is_irrational_and_wicked
When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
What did he expect from folks who blow up children in commercials.
Reblogged this on JunkScience.com and commented:
Never a discouraging word is heard
I think this along with the treatment of Professor Lennart Bengtsson and Tol (he who dared question Cook) is opening some eyes and scales are falling…that or the itch from the fleas is becoming harder to ignore.
It was such behaviour over a non committal comment at the Guardian (can’t remember the details but think it was over the Srex lack of extremes detected due to CAGW) and being called a ‘denier’ that was the final nail for me. All I can say is I hope the morons keep doing us ‘deniers’ favours with their intolerance although the child abuse (emotional abuse is child abuse even if not intentional) done in the meantime is unpalatable- to put it mildly.
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction Blog and commented:
The ‘money’ quote by IPCC author & warmists Pielke
“It is remarkable to see people like Paul Krugman and John Holdren brazenly make completely false claims in public about my work and my views. That they make such false claims with apparently no consequences says something about the nature of debate surrounding climate.”
[Hint: it’s not ‘remarkable’ given their history of alarmism but it’s nice to see others catching up with the lying nut jobs leading the debate.]