Pielke Jr to global warming hoax promoter Peter Gleick: "If you really want to defeat "the deniers" then my advice is to refrain from giving them such easy targets to shoot down."

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Peter Gleick Responds

1. You seem to want things both ways. You write that the tornadoes this week are a "reminder" that "our climate is worsening" which will lead to more "death, injury, and destruction." Now you say that you are "not claiming attribution" but then maintain that "every single event" is influenced by climate change. I am sure that I am not alone in reading your commentary as making an explicit link between this week's tornadoes and human-caused climate change.

2. If you invoke tornadoes and climate change in the immediate aftermath of >300 deaths writing "we're affecting the climate; in turn, that will affect the weather; and that, in turn, will affect humans: with death, injury, and destruction" then you should expect people to interpret your post exactly as I have. A broader focus on deaths from extreme weather events around the world also has no scientific basis at this time for asserting a connection to human-caused climate change in any of these phenomena (e.g., PDF). If you really want to defeat "the deniers" then my advice is to refrain from giving them such easy targets to shoot down.