Twenty years ago, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus “dropped” (in Ted’s words) an essay at the annual meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association titled, The Death of Environmentalism (DoE). The DoE prompted…
By Roger Pielke Jr | June 20, 2024
Who, beyond deceased shooter Salvador Ramos, bears legal responsibility for the mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022? According to two…
By Clay Calvert | June 19, 2024
A couple weeks back, Tim Lee, the author of the Understanding AI Substack, put out the following plea on X: “I really wish there were more economists involved in discussions of the implications…
By Will Rinehart | June 18, 2024
Shortly after my paper Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters” was accepted for publication, I was tipped off to a public but unnamed and well-hidden directory on the website of the National Oceanic…
By Roger Pielke Jr | June 17, 2024
Apple unveiled at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC24) Private Cloud Compute, or PPC, last Monday as a new way to manage the technical possibilities around security and privacy in cloud computing…
By Shane Tews | June 17, 2024
Broadband has been a bright spot in America’s grim inflationary landscape. While consumer prices rose 4.9 percent last year, two recent reports show that consumer broadband prices fell, both in absolute terms and…
By Daniel Lyons | June 14, 2024
It’s almost a truism that all technological innovations, generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools included, can be put to both good and evil uses. This post addresses a decidedly disturbing deployment of…
By Clay Calvert | June 13, 2024
Tim Lee, the author of the excellent Understanding AI Substack, recently took to X with a plea: “I really wish there were more economists involved in discussions of the implications of superintelligence.” He…
By Will Rinehart | June 11, 2024
As the debate about regulating artificial intelligence applications heats up, much is being made of the need for transparency. For the most part, AI algorithms “do their thing” in an “black…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 11, 2024
Scenarios are fundamental to climate research and policy. As THB readers know better than most everyone, for years climate science and policy have been off trackin relying heavily on an outdated extreme emissions…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 10, 2024
NTIA is championing Route Origin Authorizations or ROA’s as part of the Biden Administration’s cybersecurity plan to fend off nation-state hackers and cyberattacks. In tandem with this effort, on June…
By Shane Tews | June 10, 2024
The “break” in US trade policy came under Trump and Biden, not in the 1990s. Recently, a spate of news stories has attempted to predict future US trade policy under a potential…
By Claude Barfield | June 10, 2024
In today’s complex business environment, being a CEO is akin to playing three-dimensional chess. Markets and supply chains are constantly disrupted by global conflicts, financial markets remain volatile, and AI…
By Mark Jamison | June 6, 2024
“When I talk about energy, I am talking about jobs. Our American economy runs on energy—no energy, no jobs. In the long run, it is just that simple.” President Gerald Ford,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 6, 2024
Abstract For more than two decades, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a count of weather-related disasters in the United States that it estimates have exceeded…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 6, 2024