Is Pielke Jr, who endorsed a $30 billion per year US carbon dioxide hoax tax, really a "darling of the denialist community"?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: How Good Science Makes One a Darling of the Deniers

[EMagazine] Pielke, a darling of the denialist community for his criticism of Al Gore, Trenberth and others, has accused climate scientists of overreaching to make weather-climate change connections, allegations that have annoyed Somerville and other top scientists who consider Pielke, a political scientist, an unqualified gadfly on matters of climate science.

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Shows how much he knows. 

In his piling on Simon Kuper’s effort in last weekend’s Financial Times to write-off the skeptics as irrelevant, Roger Pielke, Jr. writes:

The debate over climate science is over and has been won by those who assert a human influence on the climate system.

Sorry, Jr., but that was never the debate. The skeptics had always acknowledged that point, e.g., most notably through recognition of the urban heat island effect and land use

The debate was (is) over the climatic impact of manmade greenhouse has emissions — and that is very much open to debate.

Jr. is so deluded that he thinks “The battle for public opinion has essentially been won” — or at least that’s how Kuper quoted him in the FT.

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[Pielke Jr] proposes that countries levy a $5 per ton carbon tax and that governments use the tens of billions raised to fund research and development for such new energy technologies. Pielke believes that reaching an international agreement on such a course will be far easier than trying to negotiate a comprehensive carbon rationing scheme (which would be ineffective anyway). Such a tax would raise about $30 billion per year in the U.S.