And yes, I just re-confirmed with Gore’s office that Pielke is as wrong today in his false claims as he was 2 years ago

Roger Pielke, Jr. has repeated on his website several false accusations against Al Gore from 2 years ago, which I debunked here and here.  His goal is to smear Gore, me, and indeed anyone who tries to explain the science of how global warming is driving more extreme weather.

My apologies to long-time readers for having to go through this again, but I think it’s important to see the tactics and strategy of the breakthrough bunch aka the false narrative industrial complex (FNIC).  In fact, the man who spreads more disinformation and smears more climate scientist than anybody on the blogosphere, Anthony “shout them down” Watts, just reposted some of Pielke’s false accusations, because “Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. … wrote to me and suggested I share this with my readers.”  From there it went straight to the full right-wing anti-science media.  That’s how the FNIC works.  Amazingly, Roger is now bragging about the ability he has to team up with the hard-core anti-science websites and drive traffic to his site.

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Guest blogger Alec Loorz is a high school junior in Ventura, California.  He has been a climate change activist for three years and has spoken to over 50,000 people in more than 150 talks nationwide.  He founded the nonprofit Kids vs Global Warming (KvGW) at age 13, and currently runs the iMatter campaign.

I am 16 years old. This week I filed a lawsuit against the United States of America, for allowing money to be more powerful than the survival of my generation, and for making decisions that threaten our right to a safe and healthy planet.

Our parents’ and grandparents’ generation has created a problem. They’ve developed a society that depends on burning fossil fuels, like coal and oil, to survive. They never realized that there were any huge consequences to running our lives with fossil fuels. But now, we do.

Our addiction to fossil fuels is messing up the perfect balance of nature and threatening the survival of my generation.

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