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Disasters and Climate Change (CSPO Righful Place of Science Series, November 2014)

The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming (Basic Books, 2010)

Presidential Science Advisors: Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics (Springer, 2010)

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Cambridge, 2007)

Prediction: Science, Decision Making and the Future of Nature (Island Press, 2000)

Hurricanes: Thie Nature and Impacts on Society (John Wiley, 1997)

Roger Pielke, Jr.: I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I am helping to implement a new Center for Sports Governance within the Department of Athletics.

Interesting Timing to be Removed from GEC Editorial Board

Five days ago I critiqued a shoddy paper by Brysse et al. 2013 which appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change . Today I receive...
Five Modes of Science Engagement

In my book, The Honest Broker , I describe four modes of engagement by scientists and other experts. They are ideal types and shown in the...
Space Shuttle Costs: 1971-2011

In this week's Nature , Rad Byerly and I have a short correspondence on the overall program costs for the Space Shuttle program (see fi...
Climate Change and African Civil War

Late last year the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science published a paper by Burke et al which claimed that climate change resul...
Why Rare Events are a Certainty

[UPDATE 8/25: See this interview of NOAA's Marty Hoerling.] [UPDATE 8/ 17: See this interview of Peter Stott by Tom Yulsman.] ...
A New Black List

Little did I know it, but I am intimately associated with the world's most accomplished "climate skeptic." But he is not actu...