Tisha Schuller welcomes Roger Pielke Jr., senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder to the Energy Thinks podcast.

At AEI, Roger focuses on science and technology policy, the politicization of science, government science advice, and energy and climate. He is also a distinguished fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, a research associate of Risk Frontiers (Sydney, Australia), and an honorary professor of University College London.

Subscribe to Roger’s popular Substack, The Honest Broker. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and the Financial Times.

Roger has written a number of books, including The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and 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 R. Klein; and The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming (2010).

Roger has a PhD in political science, an MA in public policy, and a BA in mathematics, all from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Roger is located in Boulder, CO.

Mentioned in the episode:

Roger’s survey co-published with Ruy Teixeira: The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem.

Tisha’s Both of These Things Are True newsletter published on September 26, 2024: “The 3 T’s of Energy Realism.”

Watch the episode on YouTube to hear Tisha and Roger discuss The Myth and The Moment.

Subscribe here for Tisha’s weekly Both of These Things Are True email newsletter.

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[Interview recorded on May 12, 2024]

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