Mother Jones has an interesting short interview with the climatologist father of one of our favorite science and technology policy researchers, Roger Pielke Jr. I don’t know why they label Pielke Sr. as “controversial” unless it is because he does not hew strictly to the political stance of “An Inconvenient Truth”. He is a serious scientist, not a polemicist — as Roger Jr. summarized:
…Of the media my father concludes the interview with the following claim:
But whenever I look at the data, I see a much more complicated picture than what you typically hear about.
That is a good summary of the difference between the title of the interview and the substance itself. But that is nothing new in the climate arena where everything is oversimplified and politically dichotomized. Even so, kudos to Mother Jones for presenting one scientist’s nuanced views that don’t sit comfortably in the conventional framing.
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