Evidence and judgment first, always.
Roger speaks to organizations across business, government, academia, nonprofits, and the political spectrum because broad engagement tests important ideas. He builds every presentation around the audience's interests and questions, and the analysis follows the evidence wherever it leads.
Organizations invite Roger Pielke Jr. to help audiences understand complex issues in climate, energy, disasters, risk, and scientific integrity through independent, evidence-based analysis.
Every presentation draws on decades of scholarship, continuously updated public data dashboards, and ongoing analysis published at The Honest Broker — audiences receive current evidence, not a recycled slide deck.
Whether speaking to corporate leaders, universities, governments, professional societies, or public audiences, Roger's goal is the same: to clarify what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and what it means for better decision-making.
My commitment is straightforward:
- Follow the evidence.
- Acknowledge uncertainty.
- Engage respectfully with differing viewpoints.
- Present the same analytical standards to every audience.
- I'll talk with any audience, whether they agree or disagree with me.
What Audiences Can Expect
He shapes each presentation around the interests and questions of the audience and keeps the same independent analytical perspective throughout. Typical briefings include:
- The latest evidence from continuously updated climate and disaster dashboards
- The current state of the scientific literature
- Historical context often missing from public discussions
- What is well established, what remains uncertain, and why
- Practical implications for policy, business, and risk management
- Extended audience Q&A
Topics
Climate Risk Beyond the Headlines
Understanding what decades of observations and research actually say about climate change and extreme weather.
Energy Transition
Progress, trade-offs, technology, economics, and policy.
Extreme Weather
Hurricanes, floods, drought, wildfire, heat, disaster losses, and the challenges of detecting long-term trends.
Scientific Integrity
How science informs public decisions in highly polarized environments.
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Using evidence effectively when risks are complex and certainty is impossible.
Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
The Honest Broker's core theme: how science actually functions (and malfunctions) in political decision-making.
The Politicization of Science
How scientific institutions, journals, and experts become entangled in partisan fights, and what that costs.
Sports Governance
Gender eligibility, fair play, doping, and institutional integrity in elite and Olympic sport.
An Independent Perspective
Roger regularly engages with organizations across business, academia, government, professional societies, and the nonprofit sector.
He takes important ideas to diverse audiences so those audiences can test them, and prefers open discussion of the evidence to a room that already agrees.
He prepares each presentation for that audience's interests and questions, and never adapts the analysis to fit an organization's preferred conclusions.
Built on Decades of Research
Roger's presentations draw on an integrated research platform:
- Weekly analysis at The Honest Broker
- Six public climate, weather, energy, and federal budget dashboards, updated continuously — see them below
- Peer-reviewed research (Google Scholar profile)
- Books and major media commentary
- The annual State of Climate Extremes report
This ongoing work ensures that every presentation reflects the latest evidence, not a static lecture developed months or years earlier.
The Dashboards Behind the Briefings
Every briefing draws on public dashboards that Roger builds and maintains. They update on their own schedules throughout the year, so the numbers an audience sees are the numbers as of that week.
Global Tropical Cyclones
Live hurricane and tropical cyclone data, tracked against the historical record.
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US Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard
Trend analysis across tornadoes, hail, drought, streamflow, wildfire, and more.
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Global Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard
The same hazards as the US dashboard, worldwide.
Visit site →Decarbonization Around the World
CO₂ intensity of GDP and per-capita emissions by country, with a calculator for the rate any target needs.
Visit site →THB Build your own climate scenario
Set eight assumptions and build an emissions scenario, against the record and the seven CMIP7 marker scenarios.
Visit site →THB US Deficit and Debt Explorer
Set economic and policy assumptions (productivity, labor force participation, immigration, interest rates, taxes, Social Security, health programs and more) and compare the resulting federal deficits and debt with CBO's February 2026 baseline for fiscal years 2027 through 2036.
View here →In the Media
Recent commentary and conversations, which give a sense of the range of subjects and audiences:
The Dispatch Press
Extreme Weather Shouldn’t Be a Political Football
Oct 2026
Wall Street Journal Press
Trump Keeps a Biden Promise…
Sep 2026
The Atlantic Press
An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
Sep 2026
Wall Street Journal Press
Antitrust Lays an Egg
Sep 2026
The Lars Larson Show Interviews Podcast
Roger Pielke Jr. - Should climate research be used to justify a $20 million claim?
Sep 2026
USA Today Press
The true story of the 'Great Miami Hurricane' echoes 100 years later
Sep 2026
All press commentary and podcast appearances →
Recent Audiences
Universities · Fortune 500 companies · Insurance and financial institutions · Government agencies · Professional societies · Think tanks · International organizations
Some of My Recent Lectures
Booking
Organizations interested in keynote presentations, executive briefings, panel discussions, workshops, or moderated conversations can get in touch.
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