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1 week ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-apocalypse-machine-rolls-on?r=4i9cy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=trueBy Roger Pielke Jr.Excerpt:Climate scenarios are fundamental to climate research and policy. For more than a decade, one scenario dominated research informing discussions of climate among scientists and decision makers.
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1 month ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-misinformation-from-the-unitedBy Roger Pielke Jr.Excerpt: Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer reviewed literature.
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2 months ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-north-american-fire-deficitThe North American Fire Deficit: A fascinating new study with incredible findingsBy Roger Pielke Jr.Excerpt: An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Parks et al.
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2 months ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-most-major-hurricanes-everThe Most Major Hurricanes Ever – The 2024 update to our global hurricane landfall databaseBy Roger Pielke Jr.This post is a joint effort with Ryan Maue. Check out his weather Substack, it is fantastic. Excerpt: Last year the world experienced the most major hurricane landfalls since records are available, tying only 2015, with 11 storms. Does last year indicate that we have reached a new climate-fueled normal? Let’s have a look.
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2 months ago | 
breakthroughjournal.org | Patrick Brown |Roger Pielke Jr.
By Patrick Brown“Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection.”That was the first line of the UCLA Press Release on a recently-published Nature review paper Swain et al. (2025): Hydroclimate Volatility on a Warming Earth.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/californias-insurance-crisisExcerpt: Dave Jones, California’s insurance commissioner from 2011 to 2018, explained California’s growing insurance crisis in 2023:Due to the failure to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. and globally, we are marching steadily to an uninsurable future.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Roger Pielke Jr.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-science-whiplashClimate Science Whiplash: Why we misinterpret climate science — Weather Attribution Alchemy, Part 4By Roger Pielke Jr.Part 1: Weather Attribution AlchemyPart 2: Attribution Stealth Advocacy at the NASPart 3: Tricks of the TradeDid you know that climate change is making the San Francisco region more foggy? The Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks to global warming, it’s about to get even foggier.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
aei.org | Roger Pielke Jr.
The decision last week by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, to immediately stop using “fact checkers” — groups hired by Meta to determine what information is true and what is false, and thuswhat should be removed — represents not just a return to common sense but also good news for both science and democracy.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Roger Pielke Jr.
The decision last week by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, to immediately stop using “fact checkers” — groups hired by Meta to determine what information is true and what is false, and thus what should be removed — represents not just a return to common sense but also good news for both science and democracy.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
rogerpielkejr.substack.com | Roger Pielke Jr.
The tragic fires in Los Angeles are on track to be among the costliest and most consequential disasters in U.S. history. Various claims are being promoted as to the cause of the disaster — climate change, DEI, poor governance, unwise development among them — usually by those crassly using the fires to promote their favorite pre-fire issue.
