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Climate Fun House Mirror

Explore the controversy around Roger Pielke Jr. and the misleading label of 'climate skeptic' in climate science debates.

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I know that Roger Pielke, Jr.'s loudest critics view him as a stalking horse for climate skeptics and deniers, so I'm sure they will find it useful that he's been included in this absurdly titled and absurdly packaged Field Guide to Skeptics. Surely the authors of this Foreign Policy article are aware that climate skeptic is a loaded term, commonly used to categorize people who either doubt the science behind anthropogenic climate change, or argue that mitigation of carbon emissions is not necessary at this point in time. Roger is not one of those people. I know because I've read enough of his body of work to know where he stands. Hell, even the Foreign Policy writers seem to know this, because they end their profile of him with this quote:

For his part, he thinks, "Climate change is a huge problem, and it's a problem linked to human activity. ...

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