... unilateral target is 34% below 1990 levels. Pielke showed a graph of the historical rate of decarbonization ... 39;t hit bottom yet and there's worse to come. Still, though, I think Pielke's probably right that energy consumption will go right back up again unless the recession ... November 9, 2009): It should be noted that Roger Pielke, Jr. is a somewhat controversial figure in the climate change ...

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: China's Resource Grab Things are shaping up whereby the US will again be branded the outlaw in international climate policy, while China quietly gobbles up more and more fossil fuel resources.Poor urge deep climate cuts; UN says out of reach | World | Reuters ARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total ...

Roger Pielke Jr is running an open invitation on 10 questions, and I'm going to respond to one of them:9. In their political enthusiasm, some leading scientists have behaved badlyI have been attending climate conferences for years now -- a couple each year, as many as I can on my tiny freelance earnings, and hardly all of them -- and have attended talks by scientists locally. I've ...

Roger Pielke Jr. linked to this Breakthrough Institute post: In Part 1 and in Part 2 we documented how ... the climate policy content of big media - and it is not pretty. Back to Roger’s commentary, a quiet source of objectivity: (…) ... of the hyper-partisan climate debate, and push that middle further away. Around here, Pielke is a reliable source. Joe Romm is not a reliable source.

... and can be reaggregated. In fact, CRU is busy doing that just now. Where did I get this information? From one of the largest thorns in the AGW community’s side, Roger Pielke Jr., who seems completely satisfied with their explanation. Skeptics like Dr. Pielke claim that isn’t the entirety of the problem. Apparently most papers in the field rely on ...

... about some core issues. Andy Revkin seems to have found a way around the blogoshouting problem. Roger Pielke Jr. is useful and interesting about half the time almost all the time. (The other half rest of the time he gives me painful tribal blogoheadaches. Sorry, Roger, but I don’t much care about the upsidedownness of William Connolley’s thinking on paleoclimate ...

... be an opportunity to examine and debate science and policy issues in more depth than is available in the mainstream media Case in point, the excitement in the blogosphere (see Roger Pielke Jr) over a new report from the Indian government claiming there is "no evidence" for climate change shrinking Himalayan glaciers. It's worth looking at ...

... sidebar summarizes advice on how researchers can avoid hype in communicating with the public, policymakers, and/or the media. In a commentary at Nature Reports Climate Change, Mike Hulme, Roger Pielke, Jr and Suraje Dessai warn against promising that climate science can "supply on-demand climate predictions to ...

From Roger Pielke Jr.: Hypothesis 1: Human influence on climate variability and change is of minimal importance, and natural causes dominate climate variations and changes on all time scales. In coming decades, the human influence will continue to be minimal. Hypothesis 2a: Although the natural causes of climate variations and changes are undoubtedly important, the human influences ...

... jobs overseas, BusinessWeek reports. That the profit motive is drawing a Chinese solar giant to the U.S. should fuel the ongoing confusion about whether solar energy is affordable or not. Roger Pielke Jr, the University of Colorado Boulder political scientist who plays Ugolino to more liberal climate bloggers’ Ruggieri (or ...