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My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic – by Roger Pielke Jr. – WSJ

By ROGER PIELKE JR.Updated Dec. 2, 2016 7:04 p.m. ET 1331 COMMENTS

Much to my surprise, I showed up in the WikiLeaks releases before the election. In a 2014 email, a staffer at the Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta in 2003, took credit for a campaign to have me eliminated as a writer for Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website. In the email, the editor of the think tank’s climate blog bragged to one of its billionaire donors, Tom Steyer: “I think it’s fair [to] say that, without Climate Progress, Pielke would still be writing on climate change for 538.”

Continued: My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic – WSJ