How much bother Iran war costing US consumers? I ran some numbers at THB Bottom line = $410 per month per household rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-econom...

Brent oil spot price for actual cargo soars to $141, highest level since 2008 financial crisis www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/d...

The Economic Costs of the Iran War What the Iran conflict costs U.S. consumers, farmers, and equities rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-econom...

Thaks Levi!

The first three SCORE papers are out today in Nature. This program really defined my pre-tenure career. Always grateful to Adam Russell and @briannosek.bsky.social for the experience. NYTimes has featured it as well: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...

A New Index of G20 Energy Security Plus - Estimated structural exposure to the Hormuz crisis rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-new-inde...

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% pay raise.

"Renewables" are not Renewable The fossil fuel foundation of wind, solar, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/rogerpie...

Mission Impossible A simple analysis shows that U.K. cannot meet its net zero goals rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/mission-im...

I made an interactive tool where you can plot Trump's most commnly used words during his second term rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/trumps-pol...

"Britain’s ambitious emissions reduction goals are still a long way off." | Roger Pielke Jr. in Dispatch Energy, presented by Pacific Legal Foundation 🔓 https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-energy/united-kingdom-climate-targets-offshoring-coal/

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

My latest at The Dispatch looks at the UK’s emissions reductions and updates my 2009 analysis finding less than meets the eye thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

Extreme Cold in a Warming World There is no contradiction between a warming global-average temperature and the occurrence of severe winter cold Pielke Sr. returns to THB as a guest author . . . rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/extreme-co...

How Europe Undermined Its Own Energy Security The revealing math behind Europe's nuclear power blunder rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-europe...

Coming tomorrow at THB

An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky

Michael Mann and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social have declared war on half of America, argues @thehonestbroker.bsky.social in a review of their new book, Science Under Siege. www.realclearscience.com/2026/03/10/t...

I reviewed a book "When future historians look back at the early twenty-first century and document the causes and consequences of the intense politicization of the U.S. scientific community, Science Under Siege (SUS) will be a core reading." rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-scient...

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New at THB rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-shrink...

It is amazing how the climate science community practices collective omerta with absolutely no defections when presented with undeniable failures of scientific integrity within its own institutions See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil Fear, politics, both? Something else?

Entrance to a Quarry near Saint-Rémy (van Gogh)  - October 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109376

The climate manual for federal judges was ghost-written by a lawyer at the law firm representing most of the cities and counties currently suing fossil fuel companies. by @thehonestbroker.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/03/07/a...

This one is a big deal rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/who-actual...

Tomorrow at THB

Happening today Badgers!

Tomorrow!

On Wednesday, I'll be lecturing at the University of Wisconsin La Follette School of Public Affairs My talk is titled: What Happened to Climate Change? Come say hi! Details:

BREAKING NEWS: Unethical, CDC Infant Hep B Vaccination Study Cancelled! The study was cancelled after Stand Up for Science held a closed door briefing with Congress last week, with an investigator on the ground in Guinea Bissau. (1/2🧵) www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/gu...

Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn was one of the inspirations for my Shock of the Old. His new book on Maintenance (prefigured in How Buildings Learn) tells some fascinating stories. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It feels like snowstorms are becoming more intense, but science tells us that we don’t really know, writes Roger Pielke Jr.

Are the Strongest Nor'easters Getting Stronger? A Closer Look A case study in confidence inflation in climate science rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/are-the-st...

At THB

🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #93

"One of the great success stories of climate science is our responses to cyclones in the Indian Ocean Basin," says Roger Pielke Jr. in conversation with TPN member @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social pointing out that in the 1960s thousands of people used to die every year due to unanticipated cyclones.

"The omission of water vapor in the basket of regulated greenhouse gases is the weakest part of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, as it is totally inconsistent with EPA’s arguments about the inclusion of the other six gases." via @thehonestbroker.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/02/18/i...

The Water Vapor Problem The weak point in EPA greenhouse gas regulation rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-water-...

Sunset in Jamaica https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22231

Making Sense of the EPA Endangerment Finding Rule Questions and Answers rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/making-sen...

“we can be pretty confident that your marginal dollar is probably best spent on something other than climate mitigation if you care about specific outcomes like mortality”

Some interesting and constructive comments on our paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social. I agree that optimism should be a verb in addition to being an outlook! Paying more attention to adaptation will help us make a plan.

"A smaller population does not necessarily mean less energy consumption.” | Roger Pielke Jr. in Dispatch Energy, presented by Pacific Legal Foundation 🔓 https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-energy/peak-population-energy-consumption/

The EPA did not rely at all on the work of the DOE CWG in its Endangerment Finding reconsideration

Saints are only 140 years old and already they've won a match from 3-0 down. There's now a whole piece about this, including stats for all the clubs currently in England's top two divisions. Such comebacks are EXTREMELY rare, for anyone. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/southampto...

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

Lourdes College in Ohio bet that adding more athletic teams would save them from closing. Now, its closing because athletics costs money. @erickelderman.bsky.social has been covering this story for over a year. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sm...

You are invited to comment on our new pre-print on climate adaptation rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-econom...

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Useful graphs for when I teach the power of partisanship in a few weeks. Here is a force which can get 20% of the US public to see Canada (!) as an enemy overnight, based on nothing at all beyond the brain farts of a deranged party leader