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Who is Roger Pielke Jr.?

Roger Pielke Jr. has a long history of what some see as casting doubt on the need for prompt reduction of our CO2 emissions but which he categorizes just as exposing false and/or misleading claims (and sometimes even scientific malpractice) … Continue reading

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Wrong Reasons

One of my pet peeves is failure to reject false arguments for a conclusion one believes to be true. And climate change is very much a case in point. While it may seem reasonable to “follow the evidence”, I have … Continue reading

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The Honest(?) Broker

Roger Pielke Jr. belies his blog title with his claim in this recent post that the IPCC has concluded that connections of carbon dioxide emissions and most types of extreme weather are “in a state of high uncertainty, doubt, or incompleteness.” The … Continue reading

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Signal, Noise, and Practical Significance

In this article Roger Pielke Jr. notes that it may take a long series of trials to detect shifts in the mean of a variable if those shifts are small  compared to its random fluctuations. The example he uses is … Continue reading

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