Revenge of the Climate Realists

Revenge of the Climate Realists

Roger Pielke Jr., a public-policy expert who had studied the intersection of politics and climate science, had been battling the prophets of doom for years. Those who insisted we were on the brink of civilizational collapse. Mass death. A biblical confrontation with ourselves that would out-Flood the Flood.But it was his argument that the rising cost of natural disasters had no tie to greenhouse gases that cost him his career.In February 2015, C…