Forbes — Column Archive
Roger Pielke Jr. wrote these columns for Forbes from September 2019 to March 2020. Each page links to the original at forbes.com. For current writing, see The Honest Broker on Substack.
2020
- Every Day 10,000 People Die Due To Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels Mar 10
- Economic Efficiency In The Premier League And Bundesliga So Far This Season Feb 26
- Good News And Bad News As Carbon Dioxide Emissions Grow More Slowly Than Models Predict Feb 18
- How Universities Are Changing Their Approach To Recruiting Student Athletes With Troubled Pasts Feb 11
- A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable In Academia” Feb 9
- Understanding The Great Climate Science Scenario Debate Feb 3
- The Decline Of Football Is Real And It’s Accelerating Jan 28
- Why You Can’t Trust The Insurance Industry’s Secret Science On Climate Catastrophes Jan 25
- On Par With Doping: The First Person To Miss The Olympics For Wearing The Wrong Shoes Jan 21
- The Best News On Climate You’ve Never Heard Jan 18
- The Inconvenient Facts On Australian Bushfires Jan 14
- What 50 Years Of Global Hurricane Landfall Data Can Teach Us About Climate Change Jan 9
- Three Rules For Accepting Climate “Event Attribution” Studies Jan 6
- How Billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg Corrupted Climate Science Jan 2
2019
- Think You Know Energy And Climate? Take My 2019 Quiz And See If You Do Dec 24
- In 2020 Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part Two Dec 23
- In 2020 Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part One Dec 22
- Why Climate Advocates Need To Stop Hyping Extreme Weather Dec 14
- The Incredible Story Of How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic Dec 6
- Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are On The Brink Of A Long Plateau Nov 30
- U.S. Hurricanes By President Since 1900: Trump Tops Obama But Bush Beats Them Both Nov 26
- Just The Facts On Hurricanes Nov 24
- No, Hurricanes Are Not Bigger, Stronger and More Dangerous Nov 15
- The Surprising Energy Math Behind U.S. Climate Policy Failure Nov 10
- Everything You Hear About Billion-Dollar Disasters Is Wrong Nov 7
- Flooding: Societal Change Is More Important Than Climate Change Nov 5
- Surprising Good News on the Economic Costs of Disasters Oct 31
- The World is Not Going To Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 50% By 2030, Now What? Oct 27
- The Biggest Threat To Climate Science Comes From Climate Advocates Oct 23
- If Climate Scenarios Are Wrong For 2020, Can They Get 2100 Right? Oct 21
- It's Time To Move Beyond The Toy Models that Guide Climate Policy Oct 7
- Net-Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 2050 Requires A New Nuclear Power Plant Every Day Sep 30
- It’s Time To Get Real About The Extreme Scenario Used To Generate Climate Porn Sep 26
- The Yawning Gap Between Climate Rhetoric and Climate Action Sep 19
- The Case for a Goldilocks Carbon Tax Sep 13
- Democratic Candidates Climate Policy Commitments Are Incredibly Ambitious, But Fail A Reality Test Sep 9
- When Is Climate Change Just Weather? What Hurricane Dorian Coverage Mixes Up, On Purpose. Sep 4