WRITTEN BY ROGER PIELKE JR. ON MAR 8, 2024. POSTED IN NEWS AND OPINION
How Extreme Weather Became A Climate Change Symbol, Contradicting The Science
In 2015, a member of Congress asked my university to investigate me based on testimony I had recently given before House and Senate committees.1
In that testimony, I summarized the conclusions of recent reports of the Intergovernmental on Climate Change (IPCC) related to the detection and attribution of trends in extreme weather and disasters. THB readers know the data and literature well, as it is a topic I discuss often. [emphasis, links added]
The congressman apparently did not like my testimony so he claimed in a letter to my university demanding that I be investigated that I was perhaps taking undisclosed money from Exxon in exchange for my testimony — where I expressed views aligned with the IPCC and based on my work in the peer-reviewed literature, which was also cited by the IPCC.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-extreme-weather-became-a-climate-change-symbol-contradicting-the-science/
