With Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World, climatologist Michael E. Mann and virologist Peter J. Hotez have written an important book.…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | March 9, 2026
This is Part Two of a three-part series on The Shrinking Economic Weight of Energy. Part One looked at gasoline, natural gas, coal, and retail electricity. This post covers lower-carbon…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | March 9, 2026
In legal disputes, it is common for issues related to science and expertise to play a central role. Is an epidemiological study reliable? What does DNA evidence actually prove? How…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | March 5, 2026
Today kicks off a three-part series here at THB focused on the energy intensity of the U.S. economy. Energy intensity is a key factor of the Kaya Identity and one…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | March 2, 2026
As New England digs out from a historic blizzard, today’s post takes a deep and technical dive into recent research — Chen et al. 2025 — claiming that Nor’easters have…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 24, 2026
Today, I take a look at what such emerging views on global population might mean for global energy supply and demand and offer three (perhaps provocative) perspectives.
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 23, 2026
The omission of water vapor in the basket of regulated greenhouse gases is the weakest part of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, as it is totally inconsistent with EPA’s arguments about…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 17, 2026
Well-intentioned but costly climate mitigation policies risk deepening the challenges faced by the world’s poor.
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 14, 2026
Well-intentioned but costly climate mitigation policies risk deepening the challenges faced by the world’s poor.
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 10, 2026
How the influential 2006 Stern Review conjured up escalating future disaster losses
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 2, 2026
“The times they are a-changing,” in particular in the context of “climate” policies and initiatives. And they are not changing favorably for the ideological opponents of fossil fuels, that is,…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 28, 2026
The world currently has 8.2 billion people and a global economy approaching $120 trillion. The world also routinely experiences extreme weather events like tropical cyclones, floods, and tornadoes. [1] Given these facts,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 26, 2026
Summary: A number of comments on the BOEM proposed OCS leasing program oppose the proposal on “climate” grounds, that is, on the purported adverse effects of the greenhouse gas emissions…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 26, 2026
Today I share my January column for Dispatch Energy. In it, I identify some important, but deeply buried, assumptions in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA ) most recent World Energy Outlook…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 22, 2026
Back in 2012, Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue, and I published the first peer-reviewed paper presenting a time series of global tropical cyclone landfalls of hurricane strength. In that paper we concluded: From currently available…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 15, 2026