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 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
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
Yesterday, the Trump administration announced via executive order that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international organizations, of which 31 fall under the United Nations (UN). [1] Among these organizations are the…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 8, 2026
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced that it was taking steps to shut down the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). USA Today broke the story: The Trump administration is moving to…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 18, 2025
I have lots of fascinating data to share today, hence the second Five Figures of December. Before the jump, here is an excerpt from my New York Post op-ed from earlier this week, which built…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 15, 2025
Part 1 of the THB series on climate change and insurance focused on the recent financial performance of the insurance industry in the context of fevered claims of its looming collapse…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 15, 2025
Some huge news dropped today that will reverberate through climate science and policy. Nature has finally retracted “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz et al. (KLW24), more than 18 months after first learning…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 4, 2025
It is Thanksgiving Day here in the US — My favorite holiday. Chez les Pielke we are getting ready to put the turkey in as the sun rises. We will…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 1, 2025
For the first time in a decade, the continental United States experienced no hurricane landfalls.1 Islands in the Caribbean saw multiple landfalls [1], notably Hurricane Melissa’s landfall as a Category 5 storm in…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 1, 2025
Last week in Belém, Brazil the 30th Conference of Parties to the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded with little accomplished, according to most observers. Perhaps the most significant…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 24, 2025
In 2015 in Paris, countries from around the world agreed to accelerate the decarbonization of their economies in response to climate change. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 20, 2025
The bad news for U.S. universities keeps on coming. Last week, Pew Research released the results of a September 2025 poll showing that increasingly large majorities of Republicans and Democrats believe that…
By Roger Pielke | October 21, 2025