The World Cup Legacy Fifa Does Not Want to Talk About In his latest op-ed for @josimarfootball.bsky.social, Play the Game’s @staniselsborg.bsky.social reflects on the broader legacy of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and why independent scrutiny remains essential. josimarfootball.com/2026/07/17/t...

"Based on the IPCC’s AR6 baseline scenarios... New Zealand councils had drawn hazard lines across property titles, adjusted infrastructure plans, and shifted insurance and lending exposure, with real economic consequences." by @thehonestbroker.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/07/10/t...

In the Sierras https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230235

This is true Yet, despite this, RCP8.5 was characterized by CMIP/IPCC not just as a reference scenario (by definition plausible) but the only available reference scenario for use in impact, economic, and policy studies

🔥Record high of 102 today for DC. Wiped out prior high mark of 101 in 1898! Low of 80 this morning will also be a record for the date. Heat index still 105-110ish at 540pm (sorry). At least as bad tomorrow. Updates at capitalweather.com. (Photo by angela n.)

Coming tomorrow at THB

FIFA President Infantino claims the 2026 World Cup will inject 80 billion U.S. dollars into the global economy! @fettitude.bsky.social argues the numbers do not add up – and for the USA, hosting could even end in a net loss. 👉 www.playthegame.org/news/the-80-...

Our recent paper on state level policies regulating gender eligibility for scholastic sports: Harris et al. 2023. The politics of exclusion: Analyzing US state responses to interscholastic transgender athletes. IJSPP, 15:757-778. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Saw this, and recalled the rude welcome Pielke Jr. received when he joined Bluesky. He was put on block lists, as were his followers, and effectively driven away. Yet what he said is now accepted wisdom. No wonder Bluesky remains such a niche platform. Self-important but with minimal impact.

When the climate people find out they are now agreeing with arguments I made more than 15 years ago they are freaking out, even if it means completely reversing the views they just expressed Ad homs then follow 😎🤣

Today @thehonestbroker.bsky.social, who's been analyzing climate wedges since the start, weighed in with detailed analysis and said, if the ProPublica findings hold up, Science Magazine should retract the paper given established standards for COI etc. rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/another-pi...

"The Iran war has cost the average American household between $775 and $1,300 so far in fuel and taxpayer costs, according to an analysis by Roger Pielke, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.”

Amazing painting by Rembrandt at a time when refugees were settling Holland. ‘He’s painting this crowded scene of Christ welcoming children, welcoming families. This was very controversial at the time. There were people in Leiden who didn’t want to welcome them’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Fox's final numbers from the rest of last Friday's games: Scotland-Morocco: 9.174 million Brazil-Haiti: 8.741 million Turkey-Paraguay: 2.752 million

Scientists including UKCEH hydrologists joined policymakers recently to mark the 50th anniversary of the benchmark 1976 drought and reflect on lessons from what is one of the most severe hydrological events in UK history. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

Between 1721 and 2022, the UK never had more than 6 living former or current Prime Ministers. Currently, it has 9.

The USA have topped their World Cup group. But can they become the 7th hosts to win? sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-usa-ha... By @thehonestbroker.bsky.social

World Cup on course to smash attendance record for any global sports championship sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers - 1874 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8253

Tomorrow at AEI: How Will the US Unleash Commercial Nuclear Power? Register here to attend in person or online: www.aei.org/events/how-w...

I made this for my parties and elections class next fall. I thought I'd share. It's a remake of the classic Voteview video with some added bells and whistles. Even has some music. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B84q... there's also an clickable/interactive website: kylesaunders.com/voteview/

Does the IPCC Exaggerate Climate Science? A new study finds the IPCC Summary for Policymakers has systematically amplified climate science beyond what the underlying report actually says rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/does-the-i...

US manufacturing productivity growth has been zero since 2010. Showing how the invasion of imports undermined competitiveness as early as the year 2000, from Robert J. Gordon and Kenneth Ryu www.nber.org/papers/w35285

Research funding is inherently political. It comes from government. Specifically, elected legislators. The history of research funding is a story of political priorities, from Nixon's War on Cancer to the Brain Initiative, to advocates achieving a 800% increase in breast cancer research.

Alpine Lake, Bavaria or Switzerland https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22843

The Science and Politics of Gender in Women's Sports @thehonestbroker.bsky.social and @sgollishruns.bsky.social join to explore the complex issues of gender, testosterone, and fairness in women's sports. open.spotify.com/episode/7crq...

RCP8.5 still doing its thing “The Global Economic Ripple Effect of Climate Change”

Power Four football generates 46.5% of athletic revenue directly. Add the media, NCAA, and donor flows that exist because P4 plays football (counted as "Other" in MFRS): you get 88%. The "80% from football" framing was right all along. kylesaunders.com/athletics-map

Van Gogh distrusted varnish. He left his paintings matte, which he considered closer to the natural appearance of the paint and more aligned with his artistic vision.

Regarding the insurance industry, I'm not an expert, but saying it's "only a stress test" could be a bit misleading if those stress tests are used in rate setting. Jessica Weinkle and Roger Pielke Jr. allege this is the case (again, I'm not an expert). rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-climat...

Let me know what you learn It’s not even close 😎

“The most extreme scenarios have met an overdue but welcome demise,” Roger Pielke Jr. writes. “The question now is whether the rest of the world will follow.”

Me in the @washingtonpost.com today on RCP8.5 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I sat down with John Stossel to talk about my experiences in the climate debate This report he produced is exceedingly well done Enjoy! youtu.be/9fyFbPWpZzs

Twenty years ago, the former vice president’s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ reshaped public debate on climate change, writes Roger Pielke Jr. It also helped blur the line between scientific inquiry and activism.

3 weeks in, Bright Spots is #4 on Substack’s Climate & Environment Rising list — next to climate and energy rockstars @katharinehayhoe.com and @volts.wtf. NYT, Politico and Guardian have all picked up pieces. Great to see real appetite for long-form energy writing. open.substack.com/pub/janrosenow

4 PM ET Join my LIVE discussion of the overheated climate scenario RCP8.5 with @hausfath.bsky.social @matthewgburgess.bsky.social @thehonestbroker.bsky.social open.substack.com/live-stream/... More viewing options below ⤵️

This is solid ⬇️

How Climate Science Lost Its Way on Scenarios A summary of our 2021 deep dive on what went wrong rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-climat...

My colleague @kschake.bsky.social: "Without bases in Europe, US power projection becomes much more difficult and costly. Troops stationed overseas are not a gift to allied countries; they are enablers of America’s global military power." www.aei.org/foreign-and-... #policysky

"The committee responsible for official IPCC scenarios... declared the high-end scenarios... to be implausible. These scenarios have dominated climate research, headlines, and policy for the better part of two decades." by @thehonestbroker.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/05/11/b...

The Price of Partisan Advocacy by Science Institutions New evidence should have us asking: is it worth it? rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-price-...

Just a quick Austria-appreciation post. It's a pretty country with great schnitzel and even better desserts.

Good work, Roger. In the first draft of the SPM of AR6 WGI, a numerical majority of the authors were from western Europe (3% of the global population). After it had been drafted and the main points decided upon, they opened the doors to new authors, which made it look inclusive.

Some interesting statistics from @thehonestbroker.bsky.social, & this is after expanding the steering committee to include more from the Global South! It would be interesting to compare to CMIP6 ScenarioMIP gmd.copernicus.org/articles/9/3... and Moss et al www.nature.com/articles/nat... 1/

Jack Grealish breaks the fourth wall 😅

The World's Most Important Science Advisory Committee Climate research has a serious governance gap rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Vetheuil, Barge on the Seine - 1901/1902 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10860

The Old Worst-Case CO₂ Emissions Track Has Long Been History; Now RCP8.5 is Officially R.I.P. Will activists and the media notice? Insights from @mliebreich.bsky.social @thehonestbroker.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social & more. revkin.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...