The Steyer Smear
Billionaire Tom Steyer has targeted climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr. for his views on climate change. Pielke's research, which is recognized by the IPCC, suggests that extreme weather impacts are more related to societal factors than climate change itself. This disagreement has led to a campaign against Pielke, funded by Steyer, who is currently running for governor of California.
- ▪Tom Steyer has funded attacks on climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr. for his views on climate change.
- ▪Pielke's research is cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- ▪The Center for American Progress labeled Pielke a 'disinformer' for his stance that extreme weather impacts are influenced by societal factors.
PJ Media files mainly under politics. We currently carry 614 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | PJ Media |
| Canonical URL | https://pjmedia.com/john-stossel/2026/05/20/the-steyer-smear-n4953090 |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 22:19:51 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T02:25:47.252Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T02:25:47.252Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
The Steyer Smear John Stossel | 10:19 PM on May 20, 2026 AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher.Roger Pielke Jr.'s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); "My views are entirely mainstream," says Pielke. "My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at PJ Media.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from PJ Media
