Roger Pielke Jr

1 month ago | revkin.substack.com | Roger Pielke Jr |Samantha Montano

My wife and I are on our first road trip from the Rockies west to the Bioneers conference in Berkeley but had to fit this in. Mike Smith, a veteran meteorologist and analyst of extreme weather warning and response, has just renewed a call he’s been making since 2012 for a national disaster review board. Click here to read his original proposal (part 1, part 2). My friend has just published a guest post from Smith laying out his updated argument.

1 month ago | climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard |Roger Pielke Jr

I was speaking to a non-US non-climate beat reporter yesterday about undeniable issues of scientific integrity in climate science and he asked a question about the climate science community that got my attention [emphasis, links added]:“And no one cares? Aren’t scientists supposed to care about such things?”Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized.

2 months ago | rogerpielkejr.substack.com | Yuval Levin |Roger Pielke Jr

In his classic 1960 book, The Semisovereign People, political scientist E.E. Schattschneider identified a dilemma of democracy: All of us are ignorant about most things, making each of us unsuitable to govern — yet we also have a belief that everyone should be allowed to participate in governance, with our political leaders chosen from among the ignorant.

2 months ago | energybadboys.substack.com | Isaac Orr |Roger Pielke Jr

But Saul, how can I sue these people and institutions? - Saul GoodmanOn Friday, September 13th, four regional transmission organizations (RTOs) filed an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals of Washington D.C. challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal and new natural gas power plants and asked the Court to remand the rules back to EPA.

Jan 13, 2025 | rogerpielkejr.substack.com | Roger Pielke Jr

This is a guest post by Mike Hulme, Professor of Human geography at Cambridge University. Mike is one of the world’s most accomplished climate scientists. Hulme participated in the IPCC second and third assessments, was part of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, where he subsequently founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA. He has been at Cambridge University since 2017.