Roger Pielke Sr.

Roger Pielke Sr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and former Director of the Center for Science and Technology at the University of Colorado

The Authoritarianism of Experts: Promoting a Green Dictatorship?

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Have you ever heard anyone make the argument that we must take a certain course of action because the experts tell us we must? The issue might be the threat of another country or an environmental risk, but increasingly we see appeals to authority used as the basis for arguing for this or that action. […]

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Unresolved Issues with Assessment of Global Surface Temperature Trends

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This paper documents various unresolved issues in using surface temperature trends as a metric for assessing global and regional climate change. A series of examples ranging from errors caused by temperature measurements at a monitoring station to the undocumented biases in the regionally and globally averaged time series are provided. The issues are poorly understood

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