A few days ago Australian legislators introduced a bill focused on “Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation.” The Australian Parliament explains the purpose of the bill: The bill proposes to amend the Broadcasting…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 23, 2024
I’m writing this week from Tokyo, where I am participating in a fascinating symposium on “Energy Security and Global Warming in an Increasingly Uncertain International Climate,” sponsored by the University…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 18, 2024
In the U.S. presidential debate earlier this week, the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris offered a strong endorsement of not just the technology of fracking but also of fossil fuels: I was the…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 13, 2024
Among those who believe that technological change has stagnated, there are two broad categories. One social/institutional theory of stagnation, often associated with Peter Thiel, claims that the world has entered…
By Lynne Kiesling | September 6, 2024
Yesterday’s earnings announcement from Nvidia brings my data center electricity use series full circle: Its now-dominant data center segment increased revenue to $26.3 billion—more than 2½ times what that business generated a…
By Lynne Kiesling | August 30, 2024
More than 30 years ago I wrote a master’s thesis that evaluated NASA’s Space Shuttle program (you can read the publications that followed here and here). As I turned to my PhD dissertation,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 30, 2024
Abstract We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | Andrea Saltelli | Gerd Gigerenzer | Mike Hulme | Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos | Lieke A. Melsen | Glen P. Peters | Simon Robertson | Andy Stirling | Massumo Tavoni | Arnald Puy | August 26, 2024
On Tuesday this week the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) is due to expire unless the U.S. and China can agree on its extension. Today I provide some background…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 26, 2024
Large-scale, dynamic social and economic change is often more difficult, incremental, and slower than anticipated. Consider James Watt and Matthew Boulton in Birmingham in 1776, having invented and refined the…
By Lynne Kiesling | August 22, 2024
Last January, upon submission of my paper (since published) — Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters” — I submitted a “request for correction” to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 21, 2024
About 20,000 years ago, the world was in an ice age. The era is called the Last Glacial Maximum and had global sea levels more than 120 meters (~400 feet)…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 19, 2024
I would guess that we are going to hear the phrase “drill, baby, drill” a lot in the next three months. Here at THB, one goal is to ensure that…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 9, 2024
In 2015, countries around the world met in Paris at the 21st Conference of Parties to the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where they agreed to limit global temperature increases…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 2, 2024
The exponential growth of data centers, driven by the burgeoning demand for cloud services, AI computations, and big data analytics, has increased electricity consumption significantly. In the first two posts…
By Lynne Kiesling | August 2, 2024
This is Part 5 in the THB series — Climate Fueled Extreme Weather. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. Each can be read on…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | July 29, 2024