Prometheus — Blog Archive

Roger Pielke Jr. wrote these posts for Prometheus, the science policy blog of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, from 2004 to 2009. Posts by his colleagues, and reader comments, remain on the University of Colorado copy.

2009

Top 10 Things I liked about Prometheus Jun 29
Some Changes to Announce Jun 15
Not What a Sensible Person Should Do Jun 11
Policing Carbon Corruption Jun 11
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jun 10
Climate Rorshach Test as News Jun 10
Collateral Damage from the Death of Stationarity Jun 10
A Plea From a Policy Maker Jun 9
ICAT Damage Estimator Jun 9
“A Con for Our Time” Jun 8
‘Heritage diplomacy’: Obama’s new tactic in Science Diplomacy? Jun 8
Worldwatch and Munich Re on Disaster Losses Jun 4
Welcome Max Boykoff Jun 4
Stern vs. Chu Jun 4
What is Wrong with Non-Empirical Science? Jun 3
Angels, demons and science diplomacy Jun 3
Climate Change Equals Thermonuclear War Jun 2
Secretary Chu Supports Exploitation of Canadian Tar Sands Jun 2
Portents of Cap and Trade Doom? Jun 2
A Detailed Meteorological Analysis of Air France 447 Jun 2
Weighing in on Emissions Reductions in the EU Jun 1
Searching for a Signal Redux Jun 1
To Laugh or Cry Jun 1
Follow Up to GHF Report Discussion Jun 1
A Methodological Embarassment May 29
Purists Who Demand that Facts be “Correct” May 28
Has Joe Romm Gone Missing? May 27
Obsession With Targets May 27
Why The Industrial Revolution Started in Britain May 26
UK Climate Change Act Paper Now Accepted May 26
Counteracting the ETS in German Energy Policies May 26
Waxman Markey Confuses Political Camps May 22
Chu to BBC: Compromise Means New Coal May 22
Extreme Efficiency in the Waxman Markey Hearings May 21
Waxman Markey as Cover for Business as Usual May 21
Not A “War on Science,” Again May 21
US CO2 versus GDP 1990 to 2008 May 20
Tell us How You Really Feel May 19
The Double Counting Problem May 19
Sizing Up the The Direct Approach May 19
Krugman Says Get on the Bus May 18
All About Offsets May 17
The “War on Science” Continues . . . May 17
United Nations Study on Disaster Risk May 17
What A Carbon Tax Proposal Looks Like May 14
A Billion Dollar Campaign Against Cap and Trade May 13
John Holdren on NPR’s Science Friday May 13
OSTP Has a Blog May 12
Public Understanding of Cap and Trade May 12
Don’t Worry About the First Ten Years May 11
Economic Policy vs. the Energy Economy May 11
Funding Sources and Political Advocacy by Scientists May 8
One of These Perspectives is Reality Based May 7
The War on Science Continues May 7
Democratic Dissention Over Biofuels May 6
UK Climate Politics: Ed Miliband Replies to Peter Lilley May 6
Guess What Wins in a Battle Between Economy and Emissions? May 5
Too Much Uncertainty To Act May 4
NOAA’s Tom Knutson on Hurricanes and Global Warming May 4
Spontaneous Decarbonization in the MIT Analysis of Cap and Trade May 2
NYT Issues a Correction May 2
Five Perspectives on Geoengineering, Including Mine Apr 30
Nature Feature on Air Capture Apr 30
Susan Solomon (Apparently Does Not) Enters Political Fray Over Coal Apr 30
Everyone Else is Doing It Apr 29
Cost-Free Cap and Trade Apr 29
No Trends in Hurricane Landfalls in Mexico: 1951-2008 Apr 28
Maybe Next Year? Apr 28
What Exactly Did President Obama Promise Today? Apr 27
Tony O’Hagan Responds (Not on Behalf of RMS) Apr 27
No Trends in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Apr 27
Let Us Not Forget About Carbon Apr 27
Bernie Madoff and Legal Liability in Climate Science Apr 24
Conspiracy and Criminalization of Public and Private Speech Apr 24
Chu is Right, But Not About Cap and Trade Apr 23
A Letter from the UK Parliament Apr 23
How EPA Lost $1.22 Trillion In Its Waxman-Markey Analysis Apr 22
Inexpert Elicitation by RMS on Hurricanes Apr 22
“Science” By Press Release Apr 21
The Spanish Green Jobs Study Apr 21
Science Does Not Matter in the EPA Endangerment Finding Apr 21
Britain to Invest in New Coal Plants Apr 20
How to Lose a Debate Apr 20
We’re Back Up Apr 20
Squaring the Circle Apr 17
The Point of Economic Activity and Other Useful Criteria Apr 16
Obama’s Climate Policy: A Work in Progress Apr 15
Does Mitigation Do Much for Sea Level Rise in the 21st Century? Apr 14
India on Emissions Reductions: “Morally Wrong” Apr 14
Obama’s Climate Policy Bind Apr 13
Fun Friday Statistic Apr 10
John Holdren’s Minor Geoengineering Gaffe Apr 10
The UK Climate Change Committee Illustrates How Not to Do Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Policies Apr 8
John Holdren’s First Interview – Supports Geoengineering, Including Air Capture Apr 8
Boulder’s Leading Role in the Carbon Debate Apr 8
How fast can a big economy decarbonize? Apr 8
Spinning Probabilities in GRL Apr 7
Utility Scale Wind in the Hawaiian Islands Apr 7
US GDP vs. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1949-2007 Apr 6
Why Cap and Trade Will Become Law Apr 6
Do we need better predictions to adapt to a changing climate? Apr 6
Congressional Insiders Forsee Incremental Change Apr 3
The Ensign Amendment Apr 2
The Thune Amendment Apr 1
Opinion on Cap and Trade in Formiche Apr 1
Floods and Forecasts on the Red River of the North Mar 31
Anonymous Guest Post on RGGI Auction “Transparency” Mar 30
Comparing Annual Absolute Growth in Carbon Dioxide Concentrations with GDP Mar 20
Serendipitous Emissions Elasticity Experiment Mar 20
Did Achim Steiner Read my Energy Tribune Interview? Mar 19
Protectionism: But what is it being protected? Mar 19
Obligated to Politicize Mar 19
Global Governance of Science Mar 18
Stern on Extremes Mar 18
If I Were the Climate Czar . . . Mar 18
The Magic of Emissions Trading Mar 16
More Simple Energy Math Mar 16
The Clean Energy Gap Mar 15
Conflicted About Correcting Al Gore Mar 15
The Core Tension of Cap and Trade Mar 15
From the Comments: Roger Caiazza on Cap and Trade Mar 15
What was the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference really about? Mar 13
Bipartisan Policy Center Releases Recommendations for Implementing Obama Scientific Integrity Order Mar 10
Science Allows Ideology-Free Policy Mar 10
What’s a Cap-and-Trade For? Mar 10
US Mitigation Math Mar 9
Doing the Math Mar 6
“Science” mischaracterized: a tale of three news stories Mar 6
New Paper on Presidential Science Advisor Mar 5
The Collapse of Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Mar 4
A Prediction Mar 4
Climate Politics as Abortion Politics Mar 3
A Tactical Error on Cap and Trade? Mar 3
One Reason Climate Policy is a Mess Mar 1
Gore Echoes Prins/Rayner Feb 28
Tim Flannery on Engaging Skeptics Feb 28
Fifteen Years Too Early Feb 27
Income Redistribution and Energy Consumption Feb 27
Climate Revenue in the Budget Feb 26
Fiscal Policy and Cap and Trade Feb 26
Munich Re on Hurricanes and Disaster Trends Feb 26
Have Progressives Lost Their Moral Compass? Feb 26
Nisbet on Framing Climate Policy Feb 26
Spiked-Online on My Aston University Talk Feb 25
Interview with Brad Johnson, Center for American Progress Feb 25
John Tierney on The Honest Broker Feb 24
Gore Pulls CRED Data From Talk Feb 23
My Slides from a Talk at Oregon State Feb 22
Coal Power and Pulling People Out of Poverty Feb 22
The Nonscientist Science Adviser Feb 20
Where is Obama’s OSTP? Feb 20
Those Poor Professors Feb 19
A Green Job = “Technologies the Authors Like” Feb 19
Jasanoff on Science and Democracy Feb 19
Coal, Carbon and Credibility Feb 19
Someone Please Explain This: UPDATED with Explanation Feb 18
Obama on CCS Feb 18
Chu Clarifies Carbon Tax Comments, or Does He? Feb 18
Is 350 The Most Important Number on Earth? Feb 17
Aberson on Holland/Webster Feb 16
Talk at NCAR on Wednesday Feb 16
Not A Peep from Scientists Feb 15
Science Insider on Suckers Feb 12
BBC on Pielke’s Analysis of the UK Climate Change Act Feb 11
Help Wanted: Must be Foreigner with Thick Skin Feb 8
The Collapse of Climate Policy and the Sustainability of Climate Science Feb 7
A Formal Response to Gavin Schmidt Feb 6
Obama’s Renewable Energy Goals, Just BAU? Feb 5
Sarewitz on Innovation Feb 5
Gavin Schmidt’s Demands Feb 4
Can Someone Point to the Science? Feb 4
All’s Fair in Love, War, and Science Feb 4
FAQ to Accompany Pielke (2009) on Air Capture Feb 3
Hansen Again Feb 3
Here We Go Again, More Cherry Picking by the CCSP Feb 2
How Did Hansen’s Super El Niño Prediction Do? Feb 2
Obama vs. IPCC Feb 2
Climate Science Infallibility Syndrome Jan 29
Apparently Markets Allow Buying and Selling Jan 29
New Paper on the Economics of Air Capture Jan 28
Reversing the Irrevsible Jan 26
Now Revkin is a Denier Jan 26
Unpublished Letter to the NYT on Energy Efficiency Jan 26
More on Antarctica and “Consistent With” Jan 24
Cap and Trade is Really a Tax Jan 22
The Global Economic Slump and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Jan 21
Consistent With Chronicles, Antarctic Edition Jan 21
Public Opinion on Obama’s International Priorities Jan 21
FT Declares Cap and Trade DOA Jan 20
Chad Gets Even More Efficient Jan 20
Massive Confusion in the New York Times Jan 19
IPCC Teams Up with WorldWatch to Attack Obama Jan 19
Junk Science on the Internet Jan 15
Coal’s Newest Friend Jan 15
All In Jan 14
Dr. Chu Goes to Washington Jan 14
Relative Improvements in CO2 Per GDP Jan 13
Carbon Dioxide and the Global Economy Jan 12
The Mysteriousness of Cap-and-Trade Jan 5
Advice From Neal Lane to the Next Science Advisor Jan 5

2008

Has Global Warming “Stopped”? Dec 31
Mark Brown on The Honest Broker Dec 30
Carbon Neutrality — “Kind of Bogus” Dec 30
Overselling Disasters and Climate Change by Munich Re Dec 30
Holdren on Clean Coal and $7/Ton Carbon Dec 29
Sarewitz on Obama Dec 24
Pielke Interviews Marburger Dec 22
Joe Romm Throws (Another) Fit Dec 22
Can Hurricane Activity Be Predicted Out to Five Years With Skill? Dec 19
More Policy Neutral Advice From the IPCC Dec 18
Holdren to Be Obama’s Science Advisor Dec 18
Sarewitz and Nelson on Technological Fixes Dec 18
Evaluation of Near Term Hurricane Loss Predictions Dec 17
CCSP on Sea Level Rise Dec 17
Europe’s Climate Policy For Dummies = 4% by 2020 Dec 14
Obama’s Science Advisor Drops in Stature Dec 12
Suppressed French Report on Electric Cars Dec 12
Someone Explain This to Me Dec 12
Not So Confident Dec 7
The Energy and Climate Challenge: Have We Underestimated the Size of the Challenge? Dec 4
Fool’s Gold of Carbon Trading Dec 1
Prins – Time to Ditch Kyoto, The Sequel Dec 1
Pielke and Green on Obama’s Climate Policy Nov 22
Poland Rejects French ETS Compromise Nov 20
Uncertainty in German Climate Policies Nov 19
India’s Persepctive on Development vs. Emissions Nov 19
The Polish Loophole Takes Shape Nov 19
US and European Public Views on Climate Change Nov 17
Germany Wants Industry Exemptions from CO2 Regulation Nov 16
Gaming Cap-and-Trade, Lessons from the EU Nov 14
Understating the Mitigation Challenge, IEA 2008 Nov 13
Japan’s Record Emissions Nov 12
IEA World Energy Outlook Nov 12
Cap and Trade, Not in the First 100 Days Nov 10
Air Capture Costs Too Much? Baloney! Nov 10
Lies Posing as History Nov 9
NYT Hit Job on the late Michael Crichton Nov 9
Adaptation is Now Cool Says IPCC Authors Nov 6
Russian Missiles and EU Climate Policy Nov 6
Where Have All the Hurricanes Gone? Nov 5
Consolidative and Exploratory Models Nov 5
Buying Time Nov 2
Mother Jones Interviews Pielke Sr. Oct 30
Alan Greenspan on Risk Models and Ratings Agencies Oct 23
Not so Honest Brokers Oct 23
We’re Hiring!! Oct 21
Post-Kyoto Per Capita Emissions In the EU-15 and US Oct 21
A Good News Story on Hurricanes from IU Oct 21
The Future of Climate Policy Depnds Upon A Single Country . . . Oct 20
The Role of Risk Models in the Financial Crisis Oct 16
Skepticism’s Permanence – A Political Reality Oct 16
Climate Policy Lessons from Around the World Oct 16
EU Division Over Climate Policy Oct 15
A Response to RealClimate Concerning A New Survey of Climate Scientists Oct 13
Article on Science and Politics Oct 10
Guest Post at Climate Science Oct 9
Air Capture Technology Quickly Advances Oct 1
Steve Rayner on Wired’s Smart List Sep 30
Carbon Dioxide Levels Rising Fast, Scientists Surprised, We Aren’t Sep 26
Welcome to the CIRES Policy Center, Bill Travis! Sep 25
Welcome to CU, Mickey Glantz! Sep 25
Al Gore on Breaking the Law Sep 24
Deja Vu All Over Again Sep 24
An Insider’s View on RGGI Sep 24
The Role of Expertise in the Financial Crisis Sep 23
Europe’s Energy Future . . . Coal Sep 22
Of Red Teams and Blue Teams Sep 22
Tax and Charade Sep 18
Tough Choices for UK Energy Policy Sep 17
Locals Only – Energy and Climate Panel Discussion Sep 15
Al Gore Comes Around on Adaptation Sep 15
Ike’s Losses and a Gustav Update Sep 13
Why the Drilling Windfall Will Change the Drilling Debate Sep 12
Resolved Point on Rates of Spontaneous Decarbonization Sep 12
Pommy Power Pickle Sep 10
Celia on CCS Sep 10
Planned Economic Recession Sep 9
Consequences of Increasing Carbon Intensity Sep 8
The Most Attractive Opportunity Sep 7
Technocrats vs. Democrats Sep 6
Blaming the Media, Wrongly in this Case Sep 5
PIK on “Dangerous Assumptions” Sep 5
EU Costs of Responding to Climate Change Sep 5
The Divergence Problem Sep 4
Nonsense, Incoherence, and Inconsistency at the Hurricane Science and Media Interface Sep 3
RMS vs. AIR on Gustav Damages Sep 3
Yohe and Lomborg Sep 2
The Carbon-Free Energy Gap Sep 1
Gustav’s Economic Impact: Some Early Thoughts Sep 1
Gustav’s Historical Analogues Aug 31
Oil from the Persian Gulf Aug 29
Consider Submitting Your S&T Policy Research to Minerva Aug 28
Arguing Both Sides at Climate Progress Aug 27
Yohe vs. Lomborg Aug 24
Science on NCAR Aug 22
Not Nearly Top of the League Table Aug 21
Consistent With Chronicles: A New Record Aug 19
Staffing Cuts at NCAR: A Puzzle Aug 19
Exchange of Views on Climate Policy Aug 19
NCAR’s Budget Woes Aug 18
Don’t Let that Door Hit You on the Way Out Aug 17
Senators to Bush on NCAR, but Miss the Target Aug 16
Two Distinguished Scientists, Two Views on Science in Politics Aug 15
The Rise and Fall of the Space Shuttle Aug 14
The Hockey Stick Debate as a Matter of Science Policy Aug 13
The Death of Environmentalism? Aug 12
NCAR’s NSF Budget: The Real Facts Aug 9
Tone Deaf Damage Control Aug 9
You Have to Protect Your Core Aug 7
NCAR Downsizes Social Science Research (again) Aug 6
Sloppy Work by the CCSP Aug 5
Joel Achenbach on Weather Extremes Aug 3
The New Abortion Politics Aug 1
Science Policy Job: House Sci & Tech Committee Aug 1
Ocean Encroachment in Bangladesh Jul 31
One Big Reason Why We Have an Energy Crisis Jul 30
Draft CCSP Synthesis Report Jul 28
Fuel Subsidies and the Politics of Higher Priced Energy Jul 28
Free Enterprise but not Free Speech Jul 28
Bruce L. R. Smith on The Honest Broker Jul 24
The Swindle Ruling, British Culture, and Freedom of Expression Jul 22
Too Many Atmospheric Scientists . . . Surprise, Surprise Jul 15
Replications of our Normalized Hurricane Damage Work Jul 14
Climate Science and National Interests Jul 9
Governance as Usual: Film at 11 Jul 9
The IPCC, Scientific Advice and Advocacy Jul 9
Adam Briggle on The Honest Broker Jul 7
What U.S Competitiveness Crisis? Jul 7
Did US Agricultural Policy Lead to the Mad Cow Disease Epidemic? Jul 5
Normalised Australian insured losses from meteorological hazards: 1967–2006 Jun 27
Interview with Rade Musulin Jun 26
What the CCSP Extremes Report Really Says Jun 20
Mark Shafer in BAMS on The Honest Broker Jun 19
Normalized U.S. Earthquake Losses: 1900-2005 Jun 18
Op-Ed in Financial Post Jun 18
U.S. Flood Damage 1929-2003 Jun 16
The New Global Growth Path Jun 16
Why Costly Carbon is a House of Cards Jun 12
Who Do National Science Academies Speak For? Jun 10
An Order of Magnitude in Cost Estimates: Automatic Decarbonization in the IEA Baseline Jun 9
Silke Beck on The Honest Broker, auf Deutsche Jun 6
IEA on Reducing The Trajectory of Global Emissions Jun 6
Good Intelligence Jun 5
A Few Bits on Cap and Trade Jun 4
Idealism vs. Political Realities Jun 3
Air Capture in The Guardian Jun 3
Visually Pleasing Temperature Adjustments Jun 2
Real Climate on Meaningless Temperature Adjustments Jun 1
Does the IPCC’s Main Conclusion Need to be Revisited? May 29
Meantime, Back in the Real World: Power Plant Conversion Rates May 28
IPCC Scenarios and Spontaneous Decarbonization May 25
A Familiar Pattern is Emerging May 25
Homework Assignment: Solve if you Dare May 23
Nature Letters on PWG May 22
World Bank and UK Government on Climate Change Implications of Development May 22
IPCC Predictions and Politics May 22
An *Inconsistent With* Spotted, and Defended May 21
Do IPCC Temperature Forecasts Have Skill? May 19
Old Wine in New Bottles May 19
The Helpful Undergraduate: Another Response to James Annan May 16
The Politicization of Climate Science May 16
Comparing Distrubutions of Observations and Predictions: A Response to James Annan May 15
Lucia Liljegren on Real Climate’s Approach to Falsification of IPCC Predictions May 14
How to Make Two Decades of Cooling Consistent with Warming May 12
Inconsistent With? One Answer May 12
NCAR Downsizes Social Science and Policy Research May 12
Real Climate’s Bold Bet May 9
Consistent With, Again May 8
Teats on a Bull May 8
Iain Murray on Climate Policy May 8
Elements of Any Successful Approach to Climate Change May 6
Boulder Science Cafe, May 13th 5:30 RedFish May 6
The Consistent-With Chronicles May 2
The High Cost of Emissions Reduction Symbolism May 1
Blinded By Assumptions May 1
Global Cooling Consistent With Global Warming Apr 30
Tom Friedman on Education Apr 28
CSU Silencing Bill Gray? Apr 28
Malaria and Greenhouse Gases Apr 25
Germany’s Energy Gap Apr 24
Joe Romm’s Fuzzy Math Apr 23
The Central Question of Mitigation Apr 22
A Post-Partisan Climate Politics? Apr 21
It Should Be Read by Everyone Apr 21
Please Tell Me What in the World Joe Romm is Complaining About? Apr 21
Kristof on PWG Apr 20
Geoengineering: Who Decides? Apr 17
Bush CO2 Plan in Context Apr 17
Peter Webster on Predicting Tropical Cyclones Apr 16
Biofuels and Mitigation/Adaptation Apr 15
Food Price FAQs Apr 14
Bonehead Moves of the Week Apr 11
Kudos to Kerry Emanuel Apr 11
Lucia Liljegren on Real Climate Spinmeisters Apr 11
Holding the Poor Hostage Apr 11
Real Climate on My Letter to Nature Geosciences Apr 10
Sheila Jasanoff on The Honest Broker Apr 10
Interview with Frank Laird Apr 9
Ted Nordhaus on the Politics of Personal Destruction Apr 9
Carbon Intensity of the Economy Apr 8
Joe Romm’s Dissembling Apr 8
Green Car Congress on PWG Apr 8
Joe Romm on Air Capture Research Apr 7
Gwyn Prins on PWG in The Guardian Apr 7
BBC Special on Adaptation Apr 7
Commentary in Nature Apr 2
Letter to Nature Geoscience Apr 2
Setting a Trap for the Next President Mar 29
Those Nice Guys at Grist Mar 27
LA Times on Adaptation Mar 26
6 Days in 2012: Effect of the CDM on Carbon Emissions Mar 19
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Mar 18
UK Emissions Mar 17
Update on Falsifiability of Climate Predictions Mar 15
Interview at The Breakthrough Institute Mar 4
The Deficit Model Bites Back Mar 3
Matthews and Caldeira on the Mitigation Challenge Feb 28
Air Capture in the U.S. Congress Feb 25
A Sense of Proportion Feb 25
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Spy Satellite Shootdown Attempt Feb 20
So Much for Peak Oil, Plug-In Hybrids, and Reliance on Foreign Dictators Feb 18
Climate Model Predictions and Adaptation Feb 18
Carbon Emissions Success Stories Feb 15
Seasonal Forecasts and the Colorado Winter Feb 14
The Consistent-With Game: On Climate Models and the Scientific Method Feb 13
Technocracy versus Democratic Control Feb 11
Climate Experts Debating the Role of Experts in Policy Jan 31
Witanagemot Justice And Senator Inhofe’s Fancy List Jan 30
Eugene Skolnikoff on The Honest Broker Jan 29
Two New Blogs to Check Out Jan 28
Updated IPCC Forecasts vs. Observations Jan 26
The Authoritarianism of Experts Jan 23
I’m So Confused Jan 20
Temperature Trends 1990-2007: Hansen, IPCC, Obs Jan 18
Worldwatch Wants You to Think Jan 18
New Paper on Normalized Hurricane Damages Jan 17
UKMET Short Term Global Temperature Forecast Jan 16
Verification of IPCC Sea Level Rise Forecasts 1990, 1995, 2001 Jan 15
James Hansen on One Year’s Temperature Jan 14
Updated Chart: IPCC Temperature Verification Jan 14
Pachauri on Recent Climate Trends Jan 14
Verification of IPCC Temperature Forecasts 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007 Jan 14
Real Climate’s Two Voices on Short-Term Climate Fluctuations Jan 11
Verification of 1990 IPCC Temperature Predictions Jan 10
Radio Interview with Radio Radicale Jan 10
Forecast Verification for Climate Science, Part 3 Jan 9
Forecast Verification for Climate Science, Part 2 Jan 8
Forecast Verification for Climate Science Jan 7
Deja Vu All Over Again Jan 7
My Comments to Science on Hillary Clinton’s Science Policy Plans Jan 5
Technology ,Trade, and U.S. Pollution Jan 2
Natural Disasters in Australia Jan 2
Is there any weather inconsistent with the the scientific consensus on climate? Jan 1

2007

End-of-2007 Hurricane-Global Warming Update Dec 26
On the Political Relevance of Scientific Consensus Dec 21
Laboratories of Democracy? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Laboratories of Democracy Dec 20
Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC, Science and Politics Dec 19
A Follow Up on Media Coverage and Climate Change Dec 19
New Data on the Global Economy Dec 18
Climate Policy as Farce Dec 18
Technology Assessment and Globalization Dec 18
Shellenberger on Bali Dec 17
A Second Reponse from RMS Dec 17
China’s Growing Emissions Dec 16
Parable About the Precariousness of Monoculture Dec 16
Chris Green on Emissions Target Setting Dec 14
A Question for the Media Dec 14
Reality Check Dec 13
Fun With Carbon Accounting Dec 12
Waxman’s Whitewash Dec 12
AGU Powerpoint with Steve McIntyre Dec 10
Chutzpah Dec 10
Hillary for President Dec 10
Prins and Rayner in the WSJ Dec 8
Precipitation and Flood Damage Dec 6
Why Action on Energy Policy is Not Enough Dec 6
Revisiting The 2006-2010 RMS Hurricane Damage Prediction Dec 6
How to Get Good Intelligence Dec 5
It Will Take More than Holocaust Analogies Nov 26
John Quiggin on Adaptation Nov 26
Promises, Promises Nov 25
Optimal Adaptation? Nov 20
IPCC and Policy Options: To Open Up or Close Down? Nov 19
Prins and Rayner – The Wrong Trousers Nov 19
Neal Lane and Roger Pielke, Jr. on NPR Science Friday Nov 16
The Science Advisor at 50 Nov 15
Not Ambitious Enough Nov 14
Geotimes Interview Nov 12
Sokal Revisited – I Smell a Hoax Nov 7
NAS Student Forum on Science and Technology Policy Nov 7
Confronting Disaster Losses Nov 2
A Range of Views on Prins/Rayner Oct 30
Prins and Rayner in Nature Oct 24
J.B. Ruhl on The Honest Broker Oct 3
Late Action by Lame Ducks Sep 29
Jonathan Adler on The Honest Broker Sep 22
The Honest Broker 20% Off!! Sep 20
Breakthrough Blog Sep 14
The Honest Broker Reviewed in Nature Aug 23
The Honest Broker Reviewed in Science Aug 17
New Publication Aug 17
Normalized US Hurricane Damages Jun 25
End of the Line . . . May 16
The Importance of the Development Pathway in the Climate Debate May 16
Upcoming Congressional Testimony May 15
Preview of The Honest Broker May 15
State of Florida Rejects RMS Cat Model Approach May 11
Reorienting U.S. Climate Science Policies May 10
Should the Gates Foundation fund Policy Research? May 9
Policy Research? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Policy Research May 7
Hans von Storch on The Honest Broker May 5
You Must be a Creationist May 4
Review of Useless Arithmetic May 4
I’m Outta Here . . . May 3
New Landsea Paper in EOS May 3
Bob Ward Responds – Swindle Letter May 2
The Swindle Letter Apr 30
The Battle for U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change is Over Apr 26
Swing State Al Apr 26
The Politics of Air Capture Apr 26
Gliese 581 Apr 25
What does Consensus Mean for IPCC WGIII? Apr 23
New GAO Report on Climate Change and Insurance Apr 20
Media Reporting of Climate Change: Too Balanced or Biased? Apr 19
A Little Testy at RealClimate Apr 19
Some Views of IPCC WGII Contributors That You Won’t Read About in the News Apr 18
Bridges Column on The Honest Broker Apr 17
Laurens Bouwer on IPCC WG II on Disasters Apr 17
On Framing . . . Apr 16
Frank Laird on Peak Oil, Global Warming, and Policy Choice Apr 16
New Peer-Reviewed Publication on the Benefits of Emissions Reductions for Future Tropical Cyclone (Hurricane) Losses Around the World Apr 12
This is Just Embarassing Apr 11
Turn the Trade Balance Around Apr 9
NOAA’s New Media Policy: A Recipe for Conflict Apr 5
The Honest Broker Available in UK and EU This Week! Apr 3
Sea Level Rise Consensus Statement and Next Steps Apr 1
No Joke: 25 to 1 Apr 1
Response to Nature Commentary: Insiders and Outsiders Mar 30
Interview at ClimateandInsurance.Org Mar 30
Now I’ve Seen Everything Mar 29
Cashing In Mar 29
Why is Climate Change a Partisan Issue in the United States? Mar 28
So Long as We Are Discussing Congressional Myopia . . . Mar 28
Pay No Attention to Those Earmarks Mar 27
Unpublished Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle Mar 27
Whose political agenda is reflected in the IPCC Working Group 1, Scientists or Politicians? Mar 26
Praise for The Honest Broker Mar 24
We Interrupt this Spring Break . . . Mar 12
. . . Meantime, Buy This Book! Mar 1
Spring Break . . . Mar 1
Spinning Science Feb 28
Success-Oriented Planning at NASA Feb 28
Science, Politics, Variability, Change, Learning, Uncertainty Feb 27
University of Colorado Sustainability Initiatives Feb 27
State Climatologists Redux Feb 26
Science and the Developing World Feb 26
IPCCfacts.org Responds Feb 23
IPCCfacts.org has its Facts Wrong Feb 23
Al Gore on Adaptation Feb 23
Catastrophic Visions Feb 23
Where Stern is Right and Wrong Feb 22
Mike Hulme in Nature on UK Media Coverage of the IPCC Feb 21
Have We Entered a Post-Analysis Phase of the Climate Debate? Feb 21
Al Gore 2008, Part 3: Washington Post on California Energy Feb 20
Prediction in Science and Policy Feb 20
Al Gore 2008, Part 2: A Comparison with the 2004 Evangelical Wedge Feb 18
Some Sunday NASA News Vignettes Feb 18
Should I Care About Cognitive Misers Fighting Over My Wikipedia Biography? Feb 18
Another Reason to View Adaptation as Sustainable Development Feb 15
Words of Wisdom in The Daily Camera Feb 14
The Honest Broker Feb 11
Does the Truth Matter? Feb 1
The Cherry Pick Jan 31
Even More: Mr. Issa’s Confusion and a Comment on Budget Politics Jan 31
Additional Reactions – Waxman Hearing Jan 31
Instant Reaction – Waxman Hearing Jan 30
Waxman Hearing Testimony – Oral Remarks Jan 30
Mike Hulme on Avery and Singer Jan 29
Congressional Testimony Jan 29
Science and Politics of Food Jan 29
Climate change a ‘questionable truth’ Jan 27
Richard Benedick on Climate Policy Jan 26
IPCC, Policy Neutrality, and Political Advocacy Jan 25
AMS Endorses WMO TC Consensus Statement Jan 24
A Report from the Bureaucracy Jan 24
Recycled Nonsense on Disaster Losses Jan 22
Pielke’s Comments on Houston Chronicle Story Jan 22
Hypocrisy Starts at Home Jan 20
Kudos for Explicit Political Advocacy Jan 18
Common Sense in the Climate Debate Jan 15
New Literature Review: Hurricanes and Global Warming Jan 9
Nonskeptical Heretics in the NYT Jan 1

2006

2007 Office Pool Dec 30
Draft Paper for Comment: Decreased Proportion of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls in the United States Dec 28
Calling Carbon Cycle Experts Dec 24
Happy Holidays Prometheus Readers! Dec 22
Swiss Re on 2006 Disaster Losses Dec 22
And I’m focused on adaptation? Dec 22
Ryan Meyer in Ogmius Dec 19
Misrepresenting Literature on Hurricanes and Climate Change Dec 18
Climate Change Hearings and Policy Issues Dec 16
Useable Information for Policy Dec 15
Reactions to Report on Al Gore at AGU Dec 15
Senator Coal and King Coal Dec 15
The Importance of Evaluation Dec 15
New Bridges Article on 110th Congress Dec 14
Follow Up to Flood Policy Presentation Dec 14
Dan Sarewitz – Lies We Must Live With Dec 13
WMO Press Release on Hurricanes and Climate Change Dec 12
You Just Can’t Say Such Things Redux Dec 11
You Just Can’t Say Such Things Dec 11
Inside the IPCC’s Dead Zone Dec 8
That Didn’t Take Long — Misrepresenting Hurricane Science Dec 6
Andy Revkin on Media on Climate Change Dec 6
The Future of Climate Policy Debates Dec 5
Fiscal Caution on NASA’s New Moon Plans Dec 5
The Simplest Solution to Eliminating U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dec 3
WMO Consensus Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Nov 30
Less than A Quarter Inch by 2100 Nov 30
Quick Reactions to Arguments Today before the Supreme Court on Mass. vs. EPA Nov 29
AAAS Report on Standards of Peer Review Nov 29
Mugging Little Old Ladies and Reasoning by Analogy Nov 28
The Benefits of Red Wine and the Politics of Science Nov 27
Why don’t you write about __________? Nov 27
Politicization of Intelligence Nov 25
Tol on Nordhaus on Stern Nov 24
Class Copenhagen Consensus Exercise: Feedback Requested Nov 24
William Nordhaus on The Stern Report Nov 22
Walter Lippmann (1955) on Misrepresentation and Balance Nov 21
Al Gore at His Best, and Worst Nov 20
What is Wrong with Politically-Motivated Research? Nov 16
Looking Away from Misrepresentations of Science in Policy Debate Related to Disasters and Climate Change Nov 15
More Climate and Disaster Nonsense Nov 14
Naomi Oreskes on Consensus Nov 14
Interview with Richard Tol Nov 11
Interview With Chris Landsea Nov 10
Guardian Op-Ed on Adaptation Nov 10
Earmarking at CU-Boulder Nov 9
Normalized US Hurricane Damage: 1900-2005 Nov 7
Sarewitz and Pielke (2000) Nov 6
Honest Broker Sighting Nov 5
Mike Hulme on the Climate Debate Nov 4
The World in Black and White Nov 1
Stern’s Cherry Picking on Disasters and Climate Change Oct 30
Open Thread on UK Stern Report Oct 29
Origin of Phrase –Basic Research–? Oct 27
Recap: Atlantic SSTs and U.S. Hurricane Damages Oct 27
Another Policy-Related Faculty Position at CU-Boulder Oct 26
Conference for Grad Students on Science Policy Oct 26
Atlantic SSTs and U.S. Hurricane Damages, Part 5 Oct 26
Atlantic SSTs vs, U.S. Hurricane Damage, Part 4 Oct 25
Atlantic SSTs vs. US Hurricane Damage, Part 3 Oct 24
Atlantic SSTs vs. U.S. Hurricane Damage – Part 2 Oct 24
What Does the Historical Relationship of Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and U.S. Hurricane Damage Portend for the Future? Oct 22
Frank Laird on Teaching of Evolution Oct 20
What Just Ain’t So Oct 18
Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop Report Oct 17
Café Scientifique Tonite in Denver Oct 17
Facts, Values, and Scientists in Policy Debates Oct 16
We Are Hiring! Two Faculty Positions! Oct 12
Expertise in Biodiversity Governance Oct 12
A Collective Research Project Oct 11
Limits of Models in Decision Oct 10
A Perspective on the 2006 Hurricane Season Oct 10
On Language Oct 9
The One Percent Doctrine Oct 5
Sizing Up Bush on Science Oct 4
Prediction and Decision Oct 2
Some Weekend Fun Sep 29
Latest Bridges Column Sep 28
Inconvenient Truth Panel Discussion at the University of Colorado Sep 28
Caught in a Lie Sep 27
Revealed! NOAA’s Mystery Hurricane Report Sep 27
NOAA’s Mystery Hurricane Report Sep 26
To Limit Choice or Expand Choice? Sep 26
Follow Up on Royal Society Letter Sep 26
Thoughts on an Immediate Freeze on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Sep 25
Interview and Podcast Sep 25
Prometheus Class Assignment Sep 22
David Whitehouse on Royal Society Efforts to Censor Sep 21
Al Gore on Climate Policy Sep 19
Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Stake in the EPA Lawsuit Sep 18
Michael Griffin on Science in NASA Sep 15
Brief of Amicus Curiae by Climate Scientists Sep 15
What to Make of This? Sep 14
The Dismal Prospects for Stabilization Sep 10
Ceding the Ethical Ground on Stem Cells Sep 8
Follow-up on Ceres Report Sep 8
Substance Thread – IPCC and Assessments Sep 7
A Colossal Mistake Sep 5
Politics of Pluto Sep 4
BA on Adaptation Sep 4
1 Degree Sep 1
Back to Square One? Sep 1
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in India Aug 31
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Aug 28
Hurricane Damage Futures Aug 26
Pop Quiz Aug 25
Scientific Advice at NASA Aug 24
Dan Sarewitz on Research Questions for Science of Science Policy Aug 23
Ceres is Misrepresenting Our Work Aug 23
Bunk on the Potomac Aug 20
Hurricanes and Global Warming: All You Need to Know Aug 19
Is IPCC AR4 an Advocacy Document? Aug 17
If “Science of Science Policy” is the answer, then what is the question? Aug 14
The Ever Increasing R&D Budget Aug 10
James Van Allen: 1914-2006 Aug 10
How to Make Your Opponent’s Work Considerably Easier Aug 9
A Pielke and Pielke Special Aug 8
The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing Aug 8
Beyond the Mug’s Game Aug 8
Hurricanes, Catastrophe Models, and Global Warming Aug 7
Be Careful What You Wish For Aug 4
Nisbet and Mooney on Media Coverage of Hurricanes and Global Warming Aug 4
Climate Porn Aug 3
Amar Bhidé on Getting Beyond Techno-Fetishism and Techno-Nationalism Aug 2
National Journal: Who Turned Out the Enlightenment? Jul 31
Patty Limerick on Wildfire and Global Warming Jul 31
Andrew Dessler Has a Blog Jul 31
Holier Than Thou Jul 28
Man in a Can Jul 28
Hockey Stick Hearing Number Two Jul 27
Conflicts of Interest at the National Academies? Jul 26
Rep. Rush Holt on Science Advice Jul 25
Scientific Leadership on Hurricanes and Global Warming Jul 25
Jim Hansen’s Refusal to Testify Jul 21
Follow up on Criticism of AGU Hurricane Assessment Jul 21
Congressional Testimony Jul 20
Space Shuttle Flight Jul 18
Upcoming Congressional Testimony Jul 15
Summer Break Jul 8
The Honest Broker, Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You Jul 7
Letter to Editor, AZ Daily Star Jul 7
How to Break Up NASA Jul 3
An Honorable Retirement for the Shuttle Jun 29
Westword on Bill Gray Jun 28
The Is-Ought Problem Jun 27
Just Barely Unacceptable Risk Jun 27
A New Paper Jun 26
A(nother) Problem with Scientific Assessments Jun 23
Quick Reaction to the NRC Hockey Stick Report Jun 22
Eve of the NAS Hockey Stick Report Release Jun 21
Please Critique this Sentence Jun 20
We Are Not Ready Jun 17
The Climate Policy Equivalent of Graham-Rudman-Hollings Jun 14
Willful Ignorance Jun 13
Hurricane Politics Jun 13
The Curious Case of Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise in the IPCC TAR Jun 10
Confusion on Science Censorship in US Federal Agencies Jun 8
Comments on Nature Article on Disaster Trends Workshop Jun 7
Workshop Executive Summary Jun 7
A Marginal View on Science Policy Jun 7
Climate Change is a Moral Issue Jun 5
Comment from Judy Curry Jun 2
NOAA Protest Jun 1
Cherrypicking at the New York Times May 31
Scenarios, Scenarios: Hansen’s Prediction Part II May 30
Dave Roberts Responds on The Climate Debate May 30
Evaluating Jim Hansen’s 1988 Climate Forecast May 29
Playground! After School! May 27
How Taxonomy is Political May 27
Appropriate Advocacy by a Science Association May 27
Definately Not NSHers May 27
The Future Will be Blogged May 26
Reaction to Comments on Non-Skeptic Heretics May 25
Gregg, Welcome to the NSH Club! May 24
Juice or No Juice? Who Decides? May 24
If You Want to Comment . . . May 23
Decisions Matter May 23
Off by 6 Orders of Magnitude May 22
Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop May 22
How to Register to Comment May 21
Signs of Change? May 20
Comment Policy Issues May 20
Fox News Documentary May 18
A Few Reactions to the Bonn Dialogue on the FCCC May 17
More Peer-Reviewed Discussion on Hurricanes and Climate Change May 15
Science Studies: Cheerleader, Marketer, or Critic? May 12
Scientific Communication and the Public Interest May 11
A Bizarro GCC and The Public Opinion Myth, Again May 10
Prometheus at 2 May 4
FEMA Disaster Database May 4
A Very Bad Dream Indeed May 1
Al Gore’s Bad Start and What Just Ain’t So Apr 28
Cutler and Glaeser on Why do Europeans Smoke More Than Americans? Part II Apr 27
Cutler and Glaeser on Why do Europeans Smoke More Than Americans? Part I Apr 26
Tenure, University of Colorado, and the Local Newspaper Apr 25
What We Discussed in Class Today Apr 25
Climate and Societal Factors in Future Tropical Cyclone Damages in the ABI Reports Apr 24
Conflicted about Conflicts of Interest? Apr 23
BBC on Overselling Climate Science Apr 21
New Article and Podcast Apr 20
Some Simple Economics of Taking Air Capture to the Limit Apr 20
Long Live the Linear Model Apr 19
An Outsourcing Urban Myth Apr 19
Congressional Opinions on Climate Science and Policy Apr 18
A New Article Apr 17
Around the Op-Ed Pages this Sunday Apr 16
Are We Seeing the End of Hurricane Insurability? Apr 14
Advocacy by Scientists and its Effects Apr 13
Out on a Limb II: A Verrrry Looong Limb Apr 12
Prove It Apr 12
Boehlert on NOAA Press Policy Apr 12
Op-ed Online Apr 7
Fact Checking Factcheck.org Apr 5
Brad Allenby on "Nightmare Science" Apr 5
The Omega-3 Pig Apr 4
On the Value of “Consensus” Apr 2
Prometheus Comment Guidelines Mar 31
NASA in the Political Minefield Mar 30
Pielke Sr. and Jr. Profiled in Nature Mar 29
Once Again Attributing Katrina’s Damages to Greenhouse Gases Mar 29
New Options for Climate Policy? Mar 28
Wise Words from James Van Allen to Jim Hansen Mar 27
A DEMOS Op-ed on Science and Smoking Bans Mar 25
Money Can Buy Happiness Mar 23
A View From Colorado Springs Mar 22
The Big Knob Mar 22
Stem Cells and Vulgar Democracy Mar 21
Representative Boehlert Says "It’s Time" Mar 20
Politicization 101: Segregating Scientists According to Political Orientation Mar 17
Forbidden Fruit: Justifying Energy Policy via Hurricane Mitigation Mar 15
Talk in DC Today Mar 15
Hoodwinked! Mar 14
To Advocate, or Not? Mar 14
Reactions to Searching for a Signal Mar 13
Uranium Enrichment and Stem Cells Mar 9
Unpublished Op-Ed: Science, Politics, and Press Releases Mar 9
“Tear Down that Wall” Mar 6
AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy Mar 6
Review of Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Part 3 Mar 2
Upcoming Public Lecture in DC at The Smithsonian Mar 1
Newsweek on Outsourcing Feb 28
A Review of Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Part 2 Feb 28
A Review of Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Part 1 Feb 27
New FAQs Feb 24
David Goldston on Science Policy in the U.S. Congress Feb 24
New IST Science Policy Blogs Feb 23
Consensus Statement on Hurricanes and Global Warming Feb 21
There is No Line Feb 16
NOAA and Hurricanes Feb 16
On Having Things Both Ways Feb 15
Sarewitz in American Scientist Feb 15
Science Suppression: A Personal Story Feb 12
Political Advocacy and the Ethics of Resigning Feb 12
Slouching Toward Scientific McCarthyism Feb 11
More on GM Foods and WTO Feb 9
Greenhouse Gas Politics in a Nutshell Feb 9
Political Plate Tectonics and Energy Policy Feb 8
What About Democracy? Feb 8
Transhumanism Feb 8
I’ll Take the Under Feb 7
The Chronicle on the SOTU Feb 1
Stern Report on Climate Change Jan 31
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth Jan 31
Boehlert on Hansen Jan 30
Dangerous Climate Change Jan 30
Let Jim Hansen Speak Jan 28
How Science becomes Politics Jan 27
Hypotheses about IPCC and Peer Review Jan 27
Two Interesting Articles Jan 27
The Elephant in the Floodplain Jan 26
And They’re Off . . . Jan 25
Public Value of Science Jan 25
Global Spending on R&D Jan 25
Partisanship and Ability to Ignore Facts Jan 24
Have we really moved beyond PUS? Jan 24
United States Competitiveness Jan 23
Big Knob Critique Response Jan 23
“Practically Useful” Scientific Mischaracterizations Jan 21
A Question for RealClimate Jan 19
Past the Point of No Return? Jan 19
OSTP AWOL? Jan 17
Spring Syllabus Online Jan 15
Does Donald Kennedy Read Science? Jan 10
The Policy Gap on Climate Change Jan 6
Normative Science Jan 2

2005

David Keith on Air Capture Dec 30
Responses to Emanuel in Nature Dec 22
Sarewitz on Mooney Dec 19
Get Ready for Air Capture Dec 15
Inside the Policy Sciences Dec 15
Matt Nisbet on Framing Science Dec 13
Hurricanes and Global Warming FAQ Dec 13
Exchange in Today’s Science Dec 9
Science Studies in Science Policy Dec 8
Preview of AGU Presentation — The $500 Billion Hurricane Dec 6
Stem Cells and that "War on Science" Nov 28
Prometheus Reader Feedback Forum Nov 24
Tom Yulsman on Religion and Science Nov 22
Two Perspectives on Katrina Nov 22
Reflections on the Challenge Nov 21
Hurricanes and Global Warming Nov 21
IPCC and Policy Neutrality? Nov 18
Final Version of Paper Nov 18
Special AGU Session on Katrina Nov 18
Spinning Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Nov 18
In Other News Nov 18
The Role of Social Science Research in Disaster Preparedness and Response Nov 11
Avoiding the Painfully Obvious Nov 9
The Abdication of Oversight Nov 8
Scientific Protectionism or Globalization? Nov 7
Presentation on Hurricanes and Global Warming Nov 4
Challenge Update 2 Nov 1
Challenge Update Nov 1
Invitation to McIntyre and Mann – So What? Oct 31
Welcome Kevin Vranes Oct 28
Exchange in BAMS on Climate Impacts Attribution, Part 2 Oct 26
Ideology, Public Opinion, Hurricanes and Global Warming Oct 25
Exchange in BAMS on Climate Impacts Attribution, Part 1 Oct 24
Response from Judy Curry Oct 23
Tag Team Hit Job Oct 22
Another View on Stem Cells Oct 21
Being Accurate is Easy, Right? Oct 19
Stem cell solution – not! Oct 18
Excellent South Asia Earthquake Resource Oct 14
Some Reactions to Chris Mooney Oct 13
There is No War on Science Oct 12
Miami Herald on Hurricane Research and Operations Oct 11
Next Week at TPM Cafe Oct 8
Preprint Available Oct 7
Another Misattribution, Climate Scientists Silent Oct 3
Griffin: The Space Shuttle Was a Mistake Sep 28
Mr. Crichton Goes to Washington Sep 28
Is Better Information Always Better? Sep 27
Bayh-Dole at 25 Sep 27
Op-ed in the LA Times Sep 23
Response from William Colglazier on Science Academies as Political Advocates Sep 22
Column in Bridges Sep 22
Correcting Pat Michaels Sep 22
Why Should We Believe NASA? Sep 21
Revkin on Katrina, Climate Science, Policy Sep 21
Dust Up Over MDGs Sep 20
Excellent Book on Think Tanks Sep 16
Generic News Story at Work Sep 16
Kerr on Hurricanes and Climate Change Sep 16
Politics and Disaster Declarations Sep 15
Part III: Historical economic losses from floods – Where does Katrina rank? Sep 15
New Center Website Sep 13
Kristof on Hurricanes Sep 12
Part II – Historical economic losses from hurricanes – Where does Katrina fit? Sep 9
New Chairman Bioethics Council Sep 8
Party ID and ID Sep 1
Unsolicited Media Advice Aug 31
Tough Questions on Hurricanes and Global Warming? Aug 30
Final Version of "Hurricanes and Global Warming" for BAMS Aug 29
Historical Hurricane Damage Aug 29
On Point Radio Interview Aug 29
Hurricane Katrina Aug 28
Science and Political Affiliations Aug 26
A Piece of the Action Aug 25
The Best NASA Can Do? Aug 25
Roger Pielke, Sr. Aug 24
The Other Hockey Stick Aug 22
Reader Request: Comments on Michaels and Gray Aug 22
Information and Action Aug 18
Science Budgets Aug 15
What Future for the Space Shuttle? Aug 15
Divergent Views on Science Policy Aug 11
On Hanging Yourself in Public Aug 9
Drawing a line in the batter’s box? Aug 9
Unprincipled Relativism on Science Policy Aug 4
We Are Looking for a Post-Doc Jul 29
EPA Fuel Efficiency Jul 29
A Crisis of Allegiance for the IPCC? Jul 28
Trial Balloon from Barton Staffer Jul 28
Space Shuttle Russian Roulette Jul 27
Secret Climate Pact and IPCC Chairman Jul 27
Toledo Blade gets it Right Jul 26
Some Thoughts on U.S. Weather Policy Jul 26
The Other Discernable Influence Jul 25
A Few Comments on Today’s Climate Hearing Jul 21
Making Sense of University (Re)Organization Jul 20
Realism on Climate Change Jul 20
Barton- Boehlert Context Jul 19
Prepackaged News, Scientific Content and Democratic Processes Jul 19
Article on Democracy and Bush Science Policy Jul 19
Palmer on Partisanship in Science Policy Jul 18
Column in Bridges Jul 18
Space Shuttle Return to Flight Jul 13
A Few Commentaries on Lomborg Debate Jul 12
You Go Dad! Jul 11
PPT of HVS Talk Jul 11
London Jul 7
How to break the trance? Jul 7
On The Hockey Stick Jul 6
Upcoming Talk and Panel This Week Jul 3
Summer Break Jun 16
Consensus on Hurricanes and Global Warming Jun 16
Wise Words on Science Policy Jun 15
Betting on Climate Jun 14
The Good Explanation – Apologies Jun 13
Interesting Coincidence Jun 13
New Paper on Hurricanes and Global Warming Jun 10
Andy Revkin Responds Jun 9
Manufactured Controversy Jun 8
Is Persuasion Dead? Jun 6
When the Cherries Don’t Cooperate Jun 6
What Role for National Science Academies in Policy? Jun 2
University Polices on Academic Earmarks May 31
John Marburger on Science Policy Research May 26
Hiding Behind the Science of Stem Cells May 25
Presentation on Climate Change and Reinsurance May 25
Making Sense of the Stem Cell Policy Debate May 23
More Cart and Horse May 23
Cart or Horse? May 19
Is the “Hockey Stick” Debate Relevant to Policy? May 17
Science and Policy Guidelines in the UK May 17
Letter in Science May 13
Water Vapor and Technology Assessment May 11
Immigration and Climate Change May 9
New Publication May 6
Another Recipe for Politicization of Science May 5
Fun With Cherry Picking May 4
What Kind of Politicization Do You Want? May 3
Bush Administration Goes Nuclear Apr 28
Text of Bob Palmer’s Remarks Apr 27
GAO on CCSP Apr 26
How Science Becomes Politics Apr 25
Getting What’s Wished For Apr 25
Science, Politics and Deer Apr 21
Follow up on Food Pyramid Apr 20
On Basic Research Apr 19
More on Real Climate as Honest Broker Apr 18
Conflicts of Interest Apr 15
Honest Broker, Part II Apr 14
Bush Administration and Climate Science Apr 12
Honest Broker, Part I Apr 12
Cure = Disease? Apr 12
STS Contrarianism Apr 11
In Seattle? Two Talks Apr 6
A Forecast of Calm on Landsea/IPCC? Apr 6
A Taxonomy of Climate Politics Apr 5
Dilbert on the Honest Broker Apr 4
Carrying the Can Apr 1
Intelligence and Science for Policy Mar 31
A Misuse of Science? Mar 31
Science versus Society Mar 30
The Coming Debate over Nuclear Power Mar 28
Tragedy, Comedy and Axiology Mar 28
Tyranny of the Plebiscite Mar 25
Politics and Disaster Declarations Mar 24
Connecting Dots for a Nuclear Stratagem Mar 24
Science Advice at the UN Mar 23
Reaction to UPI Climate Commentary Mar 22
Old Wine in New Bottles Mar 18
Defending Kass but Confirming the Conflict Mar 18
More on Politics and Bioethics Mar 16
Transcript of Marburger Interview Mar 15
How to Increase Fuel Efficiency Mar 14
Malaria and Science Policy Mar 11
Book Review in Nature Mar 11
Politics and Bioethics Advice Mar 9
Cherry Picking, CBA, GAO and EPA Mar 8
New Project WWW Page Mar 8
Indian Ocean Tsunami and NOAA’s Liability Mar 7
Adaptation and Climate Policy Mar 2
Swiss Re on Disasters Mar 1
New Paper Mar 1
Money, Conflicts of Interest and Openness Feb 28
More on Why Politics and IPCC Matters Feb 25
More on Cat Models Feb 24
Catastrophe Models: Boon or Bane? Feb 24
Marburger’s Prepared Remarks from CU Feb 23
Politicizing Politicization Feb 22
Data and Salt Feb 21
Harbingers and Climate Discourse Feb 18
Frankenfood or Fearmongering? Feb 16
McIntyre on Climate Science Policy Feb 14
Methane Policy Feb 14
Long Live Mode 1 Science – Or Not Feb 11
Space Shuttle Costs Feb 10
The Cherry Pick Feb 9
Letter in TNR Feb 9
A New Blog on Science Policy Feb 8
Climate Science and Politics, but not IPCC Feb 8
We Have an Answer Feb 4
Another Published Student Paper Feb 2
flooddamagedata.org Feb 1
Politics or Science? Jan 31
A Friday Hodgepodge Jan 28
A Good Example why Politics/IPCC Matters Jan 27
Reader Mail on Political Advocacy Jan 27
There is a Lesson Here Jan 26
More Politics and IPCC Jan 26
Long Live the Linear Model Jan 25
Follow Up On Landsea/IPCC Jan 24
A Third Way on Climate? Jan 21
Climate Change and Reinsurance, Part 2.5 Jan 19
A Response to RealClimate Jan 15
The Uncertainty Trap Jan 14
NRC Perchlorate Report and NRDC Reaction Jan 12
A Couple of Newsletters and Essays Jan 11
Accepting Politics In Science Jan 10
Social Science Policy Jan 4

2004

Prometheus Office Pool, 2005 Dec 30
Basic Research in USDA? Dec 29
Shadow Boxing on Climate Dec 27
Happy Holidays!! Dec 23
What is climate change? Dec 22
National Post Op-Ed Dec 22
This Just In Dec 21
Misuse of Science by UNEP Dec 20
A Friday Whip Dec 17
Uncertainty and Decision Making Dec 16
IPCC-FCCC Issues at COP 10 Dec 15
NYT on NRC HST Report Dec 10
Two Points on the NRC Hubble Study Dec 9
Confusion, Consensus and Robust Policy Options Dec 8
Research as Climate Policy Dec 7
About that NSF Budget Cut Dec 6
Sources for Space Policy Commentary and News Dec 1
NYT as NSF Mouthpiece Nov 30
Opening up Space Policy Debate Nov 30
Declare Victory and Move On? Nov 29
Clear Thinking on Climate Change Nov 24
Wanted: Honest Brokers Nov 23
AAAS on 2005 Science Funding Nov 22
A False Dichotomy Nov 19
NRC on Advisory Committees Nov 18
Hyperbole and Hyperbole Police Nov 18
Hyperbole Watch Nov 15
Pontifical Academy of Sciences Nov 10
A Hyperbolic Backlash Nov 9
Professors and Policy Nov 8
Politics and the IPCC Nov 2
Follow Up on CRS on DQA Oct 29
Science Press Releases, Science Headlines Oct 29
A Report Card for President Bush’s Science Policies Oct 28
More on Presidential Advisory Committees Oct 27
Sarewitz on California Proposition 71 Oct 26
More on Hurricanes and Climate Change Oct 25
Bring the Policy Back In Oct 21
Litmus Test Script Oct 20
A New Essay on Science Funding Oct 19
Satellite Reentry Risks Oct 18
It’s Time to Clarify the role of AAAS in Policy and Politics Oct 15
On Cherry Picking and Missing the Point Oct 12
An Equation for Science in Politics: SM = f(PP) Oct 11
If not Dominance, then What? Oct 8
CRS report on DQA Oct 8
Interesting Email Oct 7
Data Quality & David Brooks Oct 4
Exemption Requested from Data Quality Act Oct 4
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2005 MEPHISTOS CONFERENCE Sep 30
Hurricanes and Climate Change: On Asking the Wrong Question Sep 29
Non-Results in Clinical Trials and Beyond Sep 27
Fellowships from the National Academies Sep 22
Brian Drain Sep 21
Climate Models, Climate Politics Sep 20
Just About Right Sep 15
CSPO Has New WWW Site and Content Sep 14
Hurricanes and Climate Change Sep 13
Dangerous Ideas Sep 13
Public Access to Genome Data and the NAS as Policy Advocate Sep 10
Stem Cells, Stalwarts and Dealers Redux Sep 9
University of Washington’s Forum on Science Ethics and Policy Sep 8
The Axiology of Science Sep 7
Hurricane Frances Damage Estimates Sep 7
Population, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and US-Europe Negotiations Sep 3
You Heard it Here First Sep 2
Hurricane Francis Sep 2
Mindset List Sep 1
Jay Kay on the Wisdom of Experts and other Things Aug 31
Climate Models and Policy Aug 31
Politicization of Social Science Aug 30
A Perspective on Scotland’s S&T Policy Aug 30
USGCRP and Policy Relevance Aug 27
Striking shift? I don’t think so. Aug 27
The New York Times and Our Changing Planet Aug 26
Skewering Academia Aug 26
Beyond Dominance Aug 26
Science Education Aug 25
More on Science Literacy and Democracy Aug 25
Democracy Aug 25
Stem Cells and the Misuse of Science Aug 23
“Skeptical Environmentalist” Article Now Online Aug 20
The Politics of Personal Virtue and Energy Policies Aug 20
Charley’s Damage in Context Aug 17
The Insanity of the Climate Change Debate Aug 13
Reader Challenge Aug 6
Follow up On Fate of TRMM Aug 6
Several Minor Housekeeping Items Aug 5
Space Shuttle Costs and NASA Dynamics Aug 4
Radio Interview Q&A Aug 3
Op-Ed on Stem Cell Science and Policy Aug 2
UPI Story on Science Funding Jul 29
Radio Interview Jul 28
NRC Report on Genetically Engineered Foods Jul 28
Distinguishing Climate Policy and Energy Policy: Follow Up Jul 27
Two Views of Science in Society Jul 27
Health Research Priorities Jul 26
Distinguishing Climate Policy and Energy Policy Jul 26
Bipartisan Call to Save TRMM Jul 26
An Appeal to the President to Save TRMM Jul 23
Irony Abounds, Futility Reigns Jul 23
More on Presidential Appointments to Science Advisory Committees Jul 23
Follow Up on HHS as Gatekeeper Jul 22
Understanding Science Budgeting: Veterans/Housing vs. R&D Jul 21
Science Inputs and Outputs Jul 20
More on TRMM Reentry Jul 19
Seeds of Confusion Jul 19
Clear Thinking on U.S. and Kyoto Jul 16
Update on European GHG Emissions Jul 16
House Hearing on Prizes as Space Policy Jul 15
Confusion about Science and Policy Jul 15
Risk Communication: SNL Scoops GAO Jul 13
AAAS Leadership Seminar in Science and Technology Policy Jul 13
I Beg to Differ: Biosafety Jul 1
A Special Journal Issue on Interdisciplinarity Jun 30
Understanding Torture: What Role for Science? Jun 30
Frames Trump the Facts Jun 29
Follow-up on John Kerry and Science Budgets Jun 28
Henry Waxman, HHS, and a Bush Administration Misuse of Science Jun 28
NASA and Safety Jun 28
Publish-and-Perish in Italy Jun 24
Science Budgets and Nobel Laureates for Kerry Jun 23
Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions Jun 22
Fetal Genetic Testing Jun 21
Misuse of Science Report from ENVS 4800 Jun 17
Legitimizing the Politicization of Science Jun 17
Fast and Loose on Climate Jun 16
Technology Policy and Commercial Weather Services Jun 11
The Significance of Uncitedness Jun 10
Science, Technology, and Sustainability Program at NAS Jun 4
Chinese Science and Technology Policy Jun 4
Brain Drain Jun 3
Reducing Uncertainty: Good Luck May 31
A New Essay on Climate Policy May 28
Using and Misusing Science May 28
Scientist Shortage? May 27
Op-ed on Kyoto May 26
Book Review May 26
Politicization of Science: Getting the History Straight May 24
The Value of Collaboration May 24
Mixed Messages on GMOs May 21
Blurring Fact and Fiction: Ingenious May 21
GAO Report of Federal Advisory Committees May 20
Kyoto Protocol Watch May 20
Prometheus in the Washington Times May 20
The Cherry Pick: A New Essay in Ogmius May 19
Update on Prizes in Innovation May 19
Is Technological Pessimism Bipartisan? May 18
The Indian Election and Technology Policy May 18
Generic News Story on Climate Change May 17
Accounting Troubles at NASA May 17
2004 SACNAS National Conference May 14
Conflict of Interest Policies in NIH May 14
S & T Policy in Iraq May 14
Prizes as Science and Technology Policy May 13
Hubble Alternatives May 12
Integration of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy May 12
Colorado River and Drought May 3
The Sky is Falling May 3
Policy Relevant Science in the Media Apr 30
Science Policy and Fiction Apr 30
Singing from the Same Sheet Apr 29
So You Want to Be a Grad Student? Apr 29
The Day after Tomorrow Apr 28
On the PhD and Adjunctification Apr 28
UK Foresight on Floods Apr 28
NAS President’s Address Apr 27
Academic Orthodoxy Apr 27
More Devil in the Details: Climate Change Apr 26
Grade Inflation Apr 26
Science Academies in Africa Apr 26
Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) on Science Policy Apr 23
R&D Budgets Redux Apr 23
The Paradox of Choice and Policy Alternatives Apr 23
Space Shuttle: An Uncomfortable Question Apr 22
R&D Budgets Apr 22
A Perspective on Science and Policy in India Apr 22
Tough Questions on Space Policy Apr 21
Beyond Kyoto: Yes or No Apr 21
A FCCC Perspective on Climate Policy Apr 21
Job Opportuity in Climate Change Communication Apr 15
A Devil in the Details: Climate Change Apr 15
Climate Change Prediction and Uncertainty Apr 14
S&T Policy Jobs Apr 14