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The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change Paperback – August 31, 2018

by Roger Pielke Jr. (Author)

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After nearly every hurricane, heatwave, drought, or other extreme weather event, commentators rush to link the disaster with climate change. But what does the science say?

This fully revised second edition of Disasters & Climate Change features updated data, analysis, and peer-reviewed science related to understanding recent weather-related disasters in the United States and around the world. The updated volume also offers an inside look at Roger Pielke Jr.'s most recent experiences on the front lines of the bitter climate debates as he has sought to share consensus scientific understandings with the public and policymakers. He concludes with a proposal for a pragmatic way forward on climate policy, one that recognizes the importance of both evidence and politics.

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Roger Pielke Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder since 2001. He is a professor of environmental studies.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes; 2nd edition (August 31, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0999587749
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0999587744
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.29 x 8 inches

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Walton Francis

Essential reading for anyone interested in scientific evidence about climate change.

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019

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Pielke's book is the authoritative antidote to superstitious beliefs and the confounding of weather (short term) with climate (long term). The reality, as superbly documented in this short and well-written book, is that weather events have NOT gotten worse in frequency or intensity in recent decades or the last hundred years. Whatever the effects of CO2 emissions, they have not shown up in floods, droughts, hurricanes, or other weather disasters. This is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in factual evidence rather than nonsensical assertions about "the worst disaster in X years", a claim which has in recent decades always been statistical nonsense when purporting to apply to climate change.

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Raphael Ketani

A description of the climate change controversy, politics and policy.

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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The book is easy to read as the prose is in a common American english format. Also, the narrative is only 98 pages long. Roger Pielke, Jr., PhD. writes that those in the anthropogenic global warming camp consider him to be a denier because he questioned some of the data in the IPCC reports. However, he makes very clear in the beginning of Chapter 2, The Scientific Question Addressed Here, that he believes:
1) climate change has human causes
2) it poses risks for life on Earth
3) policy makers should take action to reduce emissions
4) there should be a carbon tax
5) extreme heat and intense rainfall may be increasing due to increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

So he is in the AGW camp. However, he includes passages from the IPCC reports which state that a signal of human causation/attribution for the extreme weather events (e.g. hurricanes and flooding, and more) cannot be found. Still, he believes that CO2 caused by fossil fuel burning is driving unusual global warming. I don't understand why he didn't reference data going back thousands of years which show that the warming is not unusual. Also, he never mentions water vapor as the most powerful greenhouse gas - one of the real drivers of climate. In Chapter 6, What About Climate Policy and Politics, he gets into what seems to be his real interest. Though, he states that the climate debate is over as the AGW crowd have the data and have won. This doesn't make any sense given the amount of fraud in the published climate studies and Climate Gate. He also states there is a consensus that climate change is human caused, but this has never been proven - except amongst the religionists of AGW. At one point in the book, he states that a carbon tax and making fossil fuels more expensive wont dissuade the public from using more of these energy sources, but in Chapter 6 he says that he is for the tax and increasing the price of fossil fuels. He believes that wind and solar will eventually solve the demand for energy worldwide, but this is not supported in reality. Lastly, he states that policies should be put forward and enacted to mitigate global warming and eliminate fossil fuel use, but this is relying on politicians worldwide to solve the alleged problem - it is they who created the mess in the first place!

I strongly DO NOT recommend the book! There are much better truthful books available from Amazon in paperback and kindle.

Raphael Ketani
Sunnyside, NY

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Jay

Weather events are not impacted by manmade climate change!

Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2019

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What this book demonstrates is that, contrary to what so many climate alarmists keep alleging, the IPCC does not support the view that apparent changes in frequency and intensity of weather events, such as floods, storms, etc. can be attributed to manmade climate change. It also shows what can happen to a respected, tenured professor if or she is accused of climate heresy. This book is full value!

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Martin Jasny

Excellent, relevant - sehr wichtiges Buch!

Reviewed in Germany on September 17, 2020

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The author, scientist, writes the same stuff as the IPCC, he does not disagree with them but he DOES DISAGREE WITH MANY FEARMONGERS, WHO SEE A GLOBAL DISASTER COMING WITHIN THE NEXT 12 OR 20 YEARS. Therefore, he has been expelled and forced to change the profession. How very sad.

He claims and shows that there is no significant connection between the global warming and extreme weather like hurricanes, floods, droughts etc. You do not even need to read the book, and you certainly need no PhD in climate science. Just look at the diagrams. Easy. If you are a minimalist, the Figure 6.1 page 80 is enough. The curve of disasters just goes up and down randomly. No trend. No climate change induced disasters.

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Ein sehr wichtiges und lehrreiches Buch. Ein Grund, Englischkenntisse abzustauben. Man braucht nicht viel, nur ein paar Bilder im Buch anzuschauen. Figure 6.1 Seite 80 ist genug. Man sieht sofort, dass uns keine weltweite Klimakatastrophe droht. Der Author ist ein (nach Anfeindungen, Schikanen und Umwegen) anerkannter Forscher.

pmbbiggsy

Scientific truth instead of unfounded alarmism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2019

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An excellent summary of the scientific and observational status of extreme weather in relation to climate change. Also includes an account of Pielke jr's experience of personal attacks on his reputation from climate alarmists including the Obama administration for simply telling the scientific truth.

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Peter Maddock

The facts make one angry - that some activists seem blinded by their fervour

Reviewed in Australia on November 5, 2018

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I liked the author's calm approach to behaviour that would make me livid - a better man than me.

Thomas De Vries

Is There a "Noble Cause" in the Corruption of Science?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2019

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Item reviewed: 2nd ed p/b (2018), published in "The Rightful Place of Science" series.

OVERVIEW. An expert on climate-related disasters has been forced to move to a different field because he persists in coming up with conclusions different from the ones desired.

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The author, a professor of environmental science, supports the IPCC on all aspects of climate change and global warming, including the long-term rise in global temperatures and the effects of CO2. But he has been described as a climate change denier, wrongly accused of being a shill for oil companies, and eventually forced out of his field after a vicious delegitimisation campaign. Why?

The author's area of expertise is not in meteorology or the physical sciences, but in the effects of disasters related to climate, which is of interest to politicians, insurance companies, and others. The scientific question addressed in the book is: Have disasters become more costly because of human-caused climate change?

Firstly, the author (and the IPCC) look at long-term records of disaster, and have not so far discovered evidence of any upwards trends. Although it is of course easy to find such trends if one looks at short term data starting in a period of a low number of disasters.

Secondly, the author looked at the records of insurance companies. It is the financial losses caused by extreme weather events - mostly floods and different varieties of windstorm - that are the best documented pointer to extreme weather effects. These losses have indeed increased dramatically, but after subtracting the effects of increase in human population, encroachment into more dangerous areas such as flood plains, and other factors, no residual trend is detected.

The obvious conclusion to the scientific question is : No, human-caused climate change has not made disasters more costly.

However, that is heresy to most of the workers in the climate field. They believe they know that the data will eventually point the other way (although that will take a fair number of years at the current rate - it will not change just because of a particularly bad year of extreme events, or maybe even several bad years). They appear to believe that is right to misrepresent the evidence, in order to do down the sceptics and show the "right" way to think. This is what political scientist Aynsley Kellow calls the "Noble cause" in corrupting science.

For example, the Fourth US National Climate Assessment (2017) found that there is no robust evidence of increase in a number of weather events except for winter storms. Michael Mann in the New York Times represented the Assessment's list of increasing extreme events as including heat waves, hurricanes, drought, and floods. No-one wants to blow the whistle because he is doing the right thing, isn't he?

The author finishes by arguing that, with increasing world population, losses will increase and only innovative technology will get us out of trouble.

This short book is written well, in good English, and surprisingly without rancour. There are a few graphs but no maths. There is no index.

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