Roger Pielke
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Boulder, CO, United States
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Good News And Bad News As Carbon Dioxide Emissions Grow More Slowly Than Models Predict
The challenge of dramatically decarbonizing the global economy remains huge, but the fact that emissions are not increasing as fast as expected should be received as welcome good news. → Read More
A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable In Academia”
An explosive, inside story of how a climate science blacklist is being used to destroy careers and reputations. → Read More
Understanding The Great Climate Science Scenario Debate
Last week saw a major debate in climate science jump from Twitter discussions among experts into the broader scientific community, where it has ignited a sometimes heated and undeniably consequential discussion. Here I explain this debate for the non-expert. → Read More
Why You Can’t Trust The Insurance Industry’s Secret Science On Climate Catastrophes
A close look at a new insurance industry report on global catastrophe losses reveals some serious data issues and offers some lessons for when academics and the media should rely on insurance industry data on climate catastrophes. → Read More
Pielke Jr.: In 2020 Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part Two
By Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. In part one of this commentary I argued that the climate science community, broadly conceived, has been misusing scenarios, resulting in misleading and deeply flawed researc… → Read More
The Best News On Climate You’ve Never Heard
On current trends, and based on the most up-to-date scenarios for the next few decades, it appears that the world has passed peak per capita carbon dioxide emissions. And we didn’t even notice it. → Read More
The Inconvenient Facts On Australian Bushfires
Those who have chosen to wage their political battles over climate change through science – whatever side they are on – will certainly not be happy with the nuanced, somewhat complex, present state of detection and attribution of wildfire to human-caused climate change. → Read More
Just The Facts On Hurricanes
Hurricanes have come to occupy a starring role in the political theater that is climate change. As a result, sorting fact from fiction can be difficult. → Read More
It’s Time To Get Real About The Extreme Scenario Used To Generate Climate Porn
Discussions of climate policy are thrown off track by the widespread misuse of an extreme climate scenario → Read More
The Yawning Gap Between Climate Rhetoric and Climate Action
So long as we favor exhortation to act in the absence of practical actions that can meet real-world tests of policy and politics, climate change will continue to be a potent political symbol, but with little connection to actual decarbonization of the global economy. → Read More
Democratic Candidates Climate Policy Commitments Are Incredibly Ambitious, But Fail A Reality Test
The climate policy proposals of each of the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates are incredibly ambitious. However, an analysis of the targets and timetables for emissions reductions proposed by each of the candidates suggests that they are not matched with policies as ambitious as the promises. → Read More
When Is Climate Change Just Weather? What Hurricane Dorian Coverage Mixes Up, On Purpose
Recent scientific assessments provide the latest understandings of hurricanes and climate change. Unfortunately, much of what you read in the media often ignores these assessments, in favor of more sensationalized and less accurate coverage. → Read More
Donald Trump isn’t waging war on science. He just doesn’t care
Under Trump, US science policy is on autopilot and largely directionless. Here is how to tackle this lack of leadership → Read More
Analysis: Global weather related disaster loss trend is downward from 1990 to 2017
Weather Disasters as Proportion of Global GDP: 1990-2017 JANUARY 4, 2018 ~ By ROGER PIELKE JR The figure above shows the annual costs of weather disasters (data from Munich Re) as a proportion of g… → Read More
Nike’s two-hour marathon project reveals technological inequities in sport
This weekend, with technological help, three runners will try to break the two-hour marathon barrier. This is a good time to ask who technology is for → Read More
After April’s March for Science, what should come next for anti-Trump scientists?
If scientists want to effectively counter the Trump administration, they should expand their political toolkits. They need clever use of counter-propaganda, evidence-based alternative policies and political representation. → Read More
Science will never settle the question of sex and gender in sport
It is time for sport to turn to more practical ways than biological testing to determine eligibility to compete in elite women’s sports events → Read More
Get ready for the coming wave of technologically enhanced athletes
Human augmentation will force sport to confront questions that it has so far resisted. So what improvements to the human body are acceptable in sport? → Read More
If we discover extraterrestrial life, what happens next?
The search for extraterrestrial life is seen as one of pure curiosity. But, as in other areas of science, we should worry about the consequences of success. → Read More
If we discover extraterrestrial life, what happens next?
The search for extraterrestrial life is seen as one of pure curiosity. But, as in other areas of science, we should worry about the consequences of success. → Read More