{"id":1354,"date":"2014-12-01T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2014-12-01T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:28:29","slug":"royal-society-epitomises-noble-cause-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2014\/12\/01\/royal-society-epitomises-noble-cause-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Society Epitomises ‘Noble Cause\u2019 Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roger Pielke, Jr. was quoted in a 29 November 2014 Telegraph article:<\/p>\n

Royal Society epitomises ‘noble cause\u2019 corruption<\/strong>
\nWarmists say they hope ‘evidence of trends in extreme weather’ will help to ‘galvanise’ worldwide ‘action’. What evidence, asks Christopher Booker.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>
\nNovember 29, 2014<\/p>\n

It was inevitable that, in its role as one of our leading warmist pressure groups, the once-revered Royal Society would join the propaganda campaign lobbying for a new global climate treaty in Paris next year. As the scientific case for the belief that the world is in the grip of runaway global warming continues to fall apart, it was equally predictable that the Society would fasten on to the one issue they have all been clutching at to keep the scare going. This is the claim that rising CO2 levels are responsible for all those dreadful \u201cextreme weather events\u201d we keep hearing about \u2013 floods, droughts, hurricanes, killer heatwaves and the rest.<\/p>\n

Introducing the Society\u2019s new report, Resilience to Extreme Weather, part-funded by the warmist billionaire Jeremy Grantham and assembled by like-minded academics and green lobby groups, its president, the geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, hopes that its \u201cevidence of trends in extreme weather\u201d will help to \u201cgalvanise\u201d worldwide \u201caction\u201d.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that its 128 pages produce virtually no evidence to support the belief that \u201cextreme weather events\u201d are becoming more frequent and intense \u2013 for the reason that virtually no such evidence exists, as even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seems to accept.<\/p>\n

Almost the only graph in the report is one co-authored in 2004 by the US climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr, which showed a rising trend line in the cost of damage from extreme weather. But as Pielke again shows in his new book Disasters and Climate Change, this increase is due to factors such as where vulnerable properties have been built. He includes an excoriatory passage on what he calls \u201cthe mystery graph\u201d, published by the IPCC in 2007, purporting to show a link between the rising cost of weather damage and rising temperatures. The only citation given for this was that it was allegedly derived from another of Pielke\u2019s own graphs, which he explains had shown nothing of the kind. As he argues, \u201cthe issue of disasters and climate change is a canonical example of ‘noble cause\u2019 corruption in science\u201d.<\/p>\n

This might well serve as an epitaph on the whole of the Royal Society\u2019s new report.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, thanks to China, India and others, the chances of agreement on the global treaty they are all lobbying for are non-existent. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Pielke, Jr. was quoted in a 29 November 2014 Telegraph article: Royal Society epitomises ‘noble cause\u2019 corruption Warmists say they hope ‘evidence of trends in extreme weather’ will help to ‘galvanise’ worldwide ‘action’. What evidence, asks Christopher Booker. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-09 06:55:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}