Roger Pielke Jr. will present for the Seminar Series.
About Roger Pielke Jr.
Roger Pielke Jr. is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on science and technology policy, the politicization of science, government science advice, and energy and climate. He is concurrently a professor emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder; a distinguished fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan; a research associate of Risk Frontiers (Sydney, Australia); and an honorary professor at University College London.
Before joining AEI, Dr. Pielke was a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, a senior fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, and James Martin Fellow of the University of Oxford. He also worked as a scientist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Pielke oversees a popular Substack, The Honest Broker. He has been published widely in the popular press, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. Dr. Pielke has testified before the US Congress on many occasions, at the invitation of Democrats and Republicans.
Additionally, Dr. Pielke has written and edited a number of books, including The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change (2018); The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports(2016); Presidential Science Advisers: Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics (2011), with Roberta A. Klein; and The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming (2010).
Dr. Pielke has a PhD in political science, MA in public policy, and BA in mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder.
About the presentation
In January, Axios observed that “the climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning — in speed, scale and scope.” This talk evaluates that claim and finds it well-supported by evidence. Roger will discuss why climate change has slipped as a public and political priority, focusing on factors in science, policy, and politics. He believes that real-world progress in climate policy requires approaches different from those prioritized in recent decades
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Organizer
La Follette School of Public Affairs,
Contact
Mindy Walker, mindy.walker@wisc.edu