Pielke's response is here: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/john-holdrens-epic-fail.html http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/john-holdrens

Pielke's response is here: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/john-holdrens-epic-fail.html http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/john-holdrens-e... It was extraordinary that Holdren should write such a harsh attack on an individual scientist, particularly when as pointed out by Pielke that his response is entirely consistent with IPCC SREX. Here is the most important quote in Pielke's article: What the IPCC SREX (2012) says: “There is medium confidence that since the 1950s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia.” For the US the CCSP (2008)20 says: “droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century.”21 It appears that stating what the IPCC says is now outside the consensus according to Holdren.