“I can think of no other area of research where the relaxing of rigour and standards has been encouraged by researchers in order to generate claims more friendly to headlines,…
Tag: Roger A. Pielke Jr.
‘Blatant Violations’: Watchdog Challenges Key Data Used by Biden Admin to Push Sweeping Climate Agenda
Sensational climate claims made without proper scientific basis and spread by government officials threaten the public’s trust in its scientific officials and undermines the government’s mission of stewarding the environment
A new paper shows that U.S. tornado damage & strong tornado incidence are both sharply down
There is simply no evidence to support claims that tornadoes are getting worse or causing more damage.
What the Media Won’t Tell you About … Wildfires–Roger Pielke Jr
The IPCC has not detected or attributed fire occurrence or area burned to human-caused climate change
Media Bombshell: Shocking Outbreak of ‘Climate Disinformation’ in the Media, i.e., Journalists Asking Questions About Net Zero on GB News and Talk TV
…climate scepticism was on the rise throughout the world, as populations start to grasp the effects of the looming Net Zero disaster.
How Climate Reductionism is Itself Causing Bad Science . . .
Science? Peer review? Journalists? WYD?
2022 Global Wide Hurricane Season Ends with Weakest Storm Levels of the Last 42 Years
This blatant failure by the climate alarmist media to address the reality of declining weather event severity and instead conceal such data is just another example establishing the dishonesty and deception of climate alarmist propaganda articles…
Why Blaming Recent Warming on Humans is Largely a Matter of Faith
This is a pervasive, quasi-religious assumption of the Earth science community for as long as I can remember.
Pielke Jr. on IPCC AR6 WG2 Release
The first observation is that the report is more heavily weighted to implausible scenarios than any previous IPCC assessment report
Pielke Jr. on John Cook’s Ministry of Truthotron
They are automating character assassination & calling it “science”
Dr Roger Pielke, Jr -What does IPCC AR6 say on Scenarios and Extreme Weather?
. It is very appealing, even seductive, for activists and the media to latch on to extreme events (as inaccurately summarized in the SPM), but at some point we have…
How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality
A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future.
Roger Pielke Jr.’s 2020 Hurricane Season Recap
2020 Atlantic hurricane season ends today Here are updated CONUS normalized losses through 2020 2020 ranks 15th of 121 years Based on @JessicaWeinkle et al https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0165-2 And CONUS landfalling hurricanes…
A demo showing our broken climate policy debate
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 8 February 2020 Summary: Progress in the climate policy debate comes too slowly. The use and misuse of RCP8.5…
The Incredible Story Of How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic
Reposted with permission from Forbes Roger Pielke Energy In recent years the issue of climate change has taken a decidedly apocalyptic turn. Earlier this week United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres…
No, Hurricanes Are Not Bigger, Stronger and More Dangerous
From Forbes Roger Pielke Contributor Energy I research and write about science, policy and politics. Earlier this week a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Net-Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 2050 Requires A New Nuclear Power Plant Every Day
From Forbes Roger Pielke Contributor Energy I research and write about science, policy and politics. More than a decade ago, Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner characterized climate policy as an…
Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism.
An excellent twitter thread by @RodgerPielkeJr concerning a paper by Hulme, M. Recommended reading: Hulme, M. (2011). Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism. Osiris,…
Ross McKitrick: This scientist proved climate change isn’t causing extreme weather — so politicians attacked
And so, many scientists who have the facts and know the truth remain silent From The Financial Post Special to Financial Post June 7, 2019 6:28 AM EDT Last Updated…
Pielke and Lomborg accused of “fact mongering”
Reposted from cliscep.com Posted on 10 Jan 19 by Paul Matthews Here’s a remarkable example of the post-truthiness of some elements of contemporary academia. A magazine called Issues in Science…
Research From Latest US Climate Report Tied to 2 Major Democratic Donors
From The Daily Signal Michael Bastasch / @MikeBastasch / November 26, 2018 / Michael Bastasch @MikeBastasch Michael Bastasch is a reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation. It’s been repeated…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #282
The Week That Was: 2017-08-26 (August 26, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The most difficult subjects can…
Pielke Jr: Joe Romm Lies
Dr. Roger Pielke writes in with an update: [UPDATE 5/7: Joe Romm offers 3,300 wacky words in response to this short post. Crazy. Anyway, the simple response is, did Gore…