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Roger Pielke Jr.
Roger Pielke Jr. is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. He writes The Honest Broker on Substack, where a more technical version of this essay was published.
How Al Gore Politicized Climate Science
Twenty years ago, the former vice president’s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ reshaped public debate on climate change. It also helped blur the line…
April 21, 2026
Roger Pielke Jr.

Buried by Snow—and by Shaky Science
It feels like snowstorms are becoming more intense, but science tells us that we don’t really know.
February 25, 2026
Roger Pielke Jr.

The Texas Floods Were an Avoidable Tragedy
This weekend, disaster struck one of the nation’s most flood-prone areas, where centuries of data show casualties were foreseeable and preventable.
July 7, 2025
Roger Pielke Jr.
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