| Roger Pielke Jr., a former director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, has uncovered the origins of the bogus “studies” warning of catastrophic global warming. It turns out three billionaires underwrote a scare campaign that Peilke describes as “an extraordinary corruption of the scientific process.”
The three villains here are former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson, who each gave $500,000 to fund a project “making the climate threat feel real, immediate and potentially devastating to the business world.” The money went to publish and promulgate a report entitled “Risky Business” that suggested temperature rises of up to 39 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 80 years, unless there was “concerted action to reduce future warming.” That “scientific study is off by an astonishing TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. This preposterous study passed peer review with little or no criticism (showing just how political the science process has become), and to date has been cited more than 1,100 times. Billions were then spent pushing further papers based on the flawed “Risky Business.” “It was a formula that would be repeated time and time again. Like the introduction of a virus, the misleading reinterpretation of climate scenarios expanded throughout climate science,” Pielke concludes. It’s a scary tale of how three billionaires corrupted the scientific process in pursuit of a politically motivated agenda. It’s just another reason you can’t believe a single word the climate fanatics say. |
