research overview
- Roger A. Pielke, Jr.'s research focuses on the governance of sport. He also studies various policies related to science and technology.
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PIELKE, ROGER, Jr. Professor
Positions
- Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program
- Professor, Environmental Studies Program
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- research, teaching and outreach on issues of governance, sports governance, secondary focus on science, technology and innovation, climate and energy policies
Publications
selected publications
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book
- The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming 2011
- Presidential Science Advisors: Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics 2010
- The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics 2007
- Scienza e politica. La lotta per il consenso 2005
- Prediction: Science, Decision Making and the Future of Nature. Ed. PIELKE, ROGER, Jr.. 2000
- Storms. Ed. PIELKE, ROGER, Jr.. 2000
- Hurricanes 1997
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chapter
- Breaking the global-warming gridlock (2000) 2014
- Climate of Failure (2012) 2014
- Lifting the taboo on adaptation (2007) 2014
- Blown Away: monetary and human impacts of the 2011 U.S. tornadoes. 107-120. 2012
- Societal vulnerability to hurricanes: Considerations on the use of long-range forecasts 2011
- Creating useful knowledge: The role of climate science policy 2010
- Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation? 2009
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Dangerous assumptions.
Nature: New biology.
531-532.
2008
- Vulnerability to natural disasters 2007
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Disasters, Death, and Destruction— Making Sense of Recent Calamities.
Oceanography.
138-147.
2006
- Abortion, Tornadoes and Forests: Thinking about Science, Politics and Policy 2004
- Contrast between predictive and vulnerability approaches 2004
- Predictability and Uncertainty 2004
- Public-Private Provision of Weather and Climate Services: Defining the Policy Problem 2003
- Il significato della scienza 2003
- The role of models in prediction for decision 2003
- Flood impacts on society: Damaging floods as a framework for assessment 2000
- Decision making and the future of nature: Understanding, using, and producing predictions 2000
- Introduction: Death, taxes, and environmental policy 2000
- Short-term weather prediction: an orchestra in search of a conductor 2000
- Introduction to storms 2000
- The Space Shuttle program: Performance versus promise 1992
- The future of the Space Station program 1992
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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Assessing Doping Prevalence is Possible. So What Are We Waiting For?.
Sports Medicine.
207-209.
2018
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Sugar, spice and everything nice: how to end ‘sex testing’ in international athletics.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.
649-665.
2017
- Climate Change as Symbolic Politics in the United States. 11-15. 2017
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The Truthiness about Hurricane Catastrophe Models.
Science, Technology, and Human Values.
547-576.
2017
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Reconciliation of Trends in Global and Regional Economic Losses from Weather Events: 1980–2008.
Natural Hazards Review.
04014009-04014009.
2014
- In Retrospect: The Social Function of Science. Nature: New biology. 427-428. 2014
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How can FIFA be held accountable?.
Sport Management Review.
255-267.
2013
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Normalized tornado damage in the United States: 1950–2011.
Global Environmental Change Part B.
132-147.
2013
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Basic Research as a Political Symbol.
Minerva.
339-361.
2012
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Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls*.
Journal of Climate.
4729-4735.
2012
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Post-Normal Science in a German Landscape.
Nature and Culture.
196-212.
2012
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Improving conveyance of uncertainties in the findings of the IPCC.
Climatic Change.
745-753.
2011
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A Democracy Paradox in Studies of Science and Technology.
Science, Technology, and Human Values.
474-496.
2011
- Shuttle programme lifetime cost. Nature: New biology. 38-38. 2011
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An evaluation of the targets and timetables of proposed Australian emissions reduction policies.
Environmental Science and Policy.
20-27.
2011
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Effective media reporting of sea level rise projections: 1989-2009.
Environmental Research Letters.
2011
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Emergence timescales for detection of anthropogenic climate change in US tropical cyclone loss data.
Environmental Research Letters.
2011
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The carbon economy and climate mitigation: an editorial essay.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.
770-772.
2010
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Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925-2009.
Weather, Climate, and Society.
300-310.
2010
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Decarbonization figures for India and China unconvincing.
Nature: New biology.
158-159.
2009
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An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2009
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Mamizu climate policy: an evaluation of Japanese carbon emissions reduction targets.
Environmental Research Letters.
2009
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Normalized Earthquake Damage and Fatalities in the United States: 1900–2005.
Natural Hazards Review.
84-101.
2009
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An idealized assessment of the economics of air capture of carbon dioxide in mitigation policy.
Environmental Science and Policy.
216-225.
2009
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The British Climate Change Act: a critical evaluation and proposed alternative approach.
Environmental Research Letters.
2009
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Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?.
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union.
111-112.
2009
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The Rise and Fall of the Science Advisor to the President of the United States.
Minerva.
7-29.
2009
- The Nonscientist Science Adviser. Science. 1010-1010. 2009
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United States hurricane landfalls and damages: Can one- to five-year predictions beat climatology?.
Global Environmental Change Part B.
187-200.
2009
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Climate predictions and observations.
Nature Geoscience.
206-206.
2008
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Future economic damage from tropical cyclones: sensitivities to societal and climate changes.
Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
2717-2729.
2007
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Who has the ear of the president?.
Nature: New biology.
347-348.
2007
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Confronting disaster losses.
Science.
753-753.
2007
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Mistreatment of the economic impacts of extreme events in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change.
Global Environmental Change.
302-310.
2007
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Climate change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation.
Nature: New biology.
597-598.
2007
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The neglected heart of science policy: reconciling supply of and demand for science.
Environmental Science and Policy.
5-16.
2007
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Kicking the carbon habit: Global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy.
Nature: New biology.
753-754.
2006
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Reply to “Hurricanes and Global Warming Potential Linkages and Consequences”.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
628-631.
2006
- Attribution of disaster losses. Science. 1615-1616. 2005
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Hurricanes and global warming.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
1571-+.
2005
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Clarifying the attribution of recent disaster losses. A response to Epstein and McCarthy.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
1481-1483.
2005
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How accurate are disaster loss data? The case of US flood damage.
Natural Hazards.
211-228.
2005
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Consensus about climate change?.
Science.
952-953.
2005
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Distinguishing Tropical Cyclone-Related Flooding in U.S. Presidential Disaster Declarations: 1965–1997.
Natural Hazards Review.
55-59.
2005
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Reanalysis of U.S. National Weather Service Flood Loss Database.
Natural Hazards Review.
13-22.
2005
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Bringing society back into the climate debate.
Journal of population.
255-268.
2005
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Misdefining "climate change": consequences for science and action.
Environmental Science and Policy.
548-561.
2005
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What future for the policy sciences?.
Policy Sciences.
209-225.
2004
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What future for the policy sciences? A rejoinder to Muth, Pelletier, and Wallace.
Policy Sciences.
255-258.
2004
- What is climate change?. Issues in Science and Technology. 31-34. 2004
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The societal, social, and economic impacts of the World Weather Research Programme Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project (WWRP S2000FDP).
Weather and Forecasting.
168-178.
2004
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Understanding User Decision Making and the Value of Improved Precipitation Forecasts: Lessons From a Case Study.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
223-236.
2004
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Editor's introduction.
Environmental Science and Policy.
355-356.
2004
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When scientists politicize science: making sense of controversy over The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Environmental Science and Policy.
405-417.
2004
- Supply and demand for atmospheric sciences professionals: A rejoinder to Vali and Anthes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1164-1165. 2003
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Hurricane Vulnerability in Latin America and The Caribbean: Normalized Damage and Loss Potentials.
Natural Hazards Review.
101-114.
2003
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Vulnerability and Risk: Some Thoughts from a Political and Policy Perspective.
Risk Analysis.
805-810.
2003
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Best practices in prediction for decision-making: Lessons from the atmospheric and earth sciences.
Ecology.
1351-1358.
2003
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Abrupt climate change.
Science.
2005-2010.
2003
- Supply of and demand for atmospheric sciences professionals. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 170-173. 2003
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Bad weather? Then sue the weatherman! Part I: Legal liability for public sector forecasts.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
1791-1799.
2002
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Bad weather? Then sue the weatherman! Part II: Legal liability for private sector forecasts.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
1801-1807.
2002
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Science policy: Policy, politics and perspective - The scientific community must distinguish analysis from advocacy..
Nature: New biology.
367-368.
2002
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Weather Impacts, Forecasts, and Policy: An Integrated Perspective.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
393-403.
2002
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Discretion without Accountability: Politics, Flood Damage, and Climate.
Natural Hazards Review.
157-166.
2001
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Ecological Forecasts: An Emerging Imperative.
Science.
657-660.
2001
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Extreme Events: A Research and Policy Framework for Disasters in Context.
International Geology Review.
406-418.
2001
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Room for doubt.
Nature: New biology.
151-151.
2001
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Precipitation and damaging floods: Trends in the United States, 1932-97.
Journal of Climate.
3625-3637.
2000
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Policy history of the US Global Change Research Program: Part II. Legislative process.
Global Environmental Change.
133-144.
2000
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Turning the Big Knob: An Evaluation of the Use of Energy Policy to Modulate Future Climate Impacts.
Energy and Environment.
255-275.
2000
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Policy history of the US Global Change Research Program: Part I. Administrative development.
Global Environmental Change.
9-25.
2000
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An introduction to trends in extreme weather and climate events: Observations, socioeconomic impacts, terrestrial ecological impacts, and model projections.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
413-416.
2000
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Human factors explain the increased losses from weather and climate extremes.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
437-442.
2000
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La Nina, El Nino, and Atlantic hurricane damages in the United States.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
2027-2033.
1999
- US trends in streamflow and precipitation: Using societal impact data to address an apparent paradox. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1435-1436. 1999
- Nine fallacies of floods. Climatic Change. 413-438. 1999
- Hurricane forecasting. Science. 1123-1123. 1999
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Prediction in the Earth sciences and environmental policy making.
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union.
309-309.
1999
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Who decides? Forecasts and responsibilities in the 1997 Red River flood.
Applied Behavioral Science Review.
83-101.
1999
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Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95.
Weather and Forecasting.
621-631.
1998
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Rethinking the role of adaptation in climate policy.
Global Environmental Change.
159-170.
1998
- Blurring the boundaries - Domestic and international ozone politics and lessons for climate change. International Environmental Affairs. 147-172. 1998
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Beyond basic and applied.
Physics Today.
42-46.
1998
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Reframing the US hurricane problem.
Society and Natural Resources.
485-499.
1997
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Policy for science for policy: A commentary on Lambright on ozone depletion and acid rain.
Research Policy.
157-168.
1997
- Societal aspects of weather: Report of the Sixth Prospectus Development Team of US Weather Research Program to NOAA and NSF. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 867-876. 1997
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Asking the right questions: Atmospheric sciences research and societal needs.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
255-264.
1997
- Effective US science continued - Reply. Science. 1218-1219. 1996
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Serving science and society: Lessons from large-scale atmospheric science programs.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
2445-2458.
1995
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THE CHANGING ECOLOGY OF UNITED-STATES SCIENCE.
Science.
1531-1532.
1995
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USABLE INFORMATION FOR POLICY - AN APPRAISAL OF THE US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH-PROGRAM.
Policy Sciences.
39-77.
1995
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SCIENTIFIC-INFORMATION AND GLOBAL CHANGE POLICY-MAKING .1. US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH-PROGRAM - WHATS THE PROBLEM.
Climatic Change.
315-319.
1994
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DATA ON AND METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING SPACE-SHUTTLE PROGRAM COSTS.
Space Policy.
78-80.
1994
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A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SPACE-SHUTTLE PROGRAM.
Space Policy.
133-157.
1993
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Assessing Doping Prevalence is Possible. So What Are We Waiting For?.
Sports Medicine.
207-209.
2018
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 1994
- M.A., University of Colorado Boulder 1992
- B.A., University of Colorado Boulder 1990