Executive Summary: Gene synthesis screening is an effective tool to prevent dangerous pathogens from moving from digital design to physical reality. Mandatory screening will likely provide substantial benefits at modest…
By Anemone Franz | Rachel Hovde | Scott Weathers | 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
Key Points Read the PDF (text version below): Editor’s Note In 1986, the American Enterprise Institute published The Politics of Industrial Policy, a collection of essays edited by AEI Senior Fellow…
By Jeffrey A. Hart | January 14, 2026
Response to Better Biosecurity for the Bioeconomy by David Gillum. David Gillum makes a compelling and urgent case for improving oversight of high-risk biological research and proposes a National Biosafety and Biosecurity…
By Anemone Franz | January 13, 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
The 2001 anthrax letter attacks in the United States, the 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic have something in common: Investigators have struggled to determine their origins despite extensive efforts. This highlights…
By Anemone Franz | December 2, 2025
Summary: The federal Regional Haze Program should be repealed or at a minimum scaled back dramatically so as to return haze policies to the states as reflected in their respective…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 2, 2025