Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog

Science, Innovation, Politics

01 May 2012

Please Consider a Donation

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...
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...
Better Recheck That List

UPDATE 3/3/13 The owner of the list mentioned in this post emails and provides a comment below notifying me that the paper was finally remo...
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...
Coverage of Extreme Events in the IPCC AR5

I had been scheduled to testify before the House Science Committee next week in a hearing on extreme events, but the gong show in Washingt...
IPCC Lead Author Misleads US Congress

The politicization of climate science is so complete that the lead author of the IPCC's Working Group II on climate impacts feels comf...