THB Series

Updated Apr 2024

There are a number of continuing topical series here at THB focused on a wide range of issues. Series explore a specific theme in depth over multiple posts. Here is a guide to just some of the series at THB.

• Archives by Year

  • 2020

  • 2021

  • 2022

  • 2023

  • 2024, Coming soon!

• Planetary Boundaries and Global Governance

  • The Rich vs. the Rest (Dec 2023)

  • Planetary Boundaries and the Rise of Non-State Global Governance

  • The Political Agenda of the IPCC

  • The Two Degree Temperature Target is Arbitrary and Untethered

  • The 1.5 Degree Temperature Target is a Dead Man Walking

• COVID-19 Origins

  • Covidgate (July 2023)

  • The COVID-19 Natural Origins Theory Lacks a Storyline (June 2023)

  • Answers to COVID-19 Lab Leak Questions? (June 2023)

  • Scientific Integrity and the Origins of Covid-19

  • Scientific Leadership on Covid-19 Origins

  • Book Review: VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

  • The WHO Covid Origins Team has Placed the WHO in a Very Tough Spot

  • Debate over the possibility of a COVID-19 lab leak is over

  • The COVID-19 Origins Debate Opens Up

  • A COVID-19 Lab Leak: More Likely than Not

• Pielke Sr. on Weather and Climate

  • Where’s the Heat? Roger Pielke Sr. on Ocean Heat Content Change

  • How Carbon Dioxide Emissions Change the Climate

  • How Land Use Changes the Climate

  • Can a Butterfly in Brazil Really Cause a Tornado in Texas?

• Energy Policy and Politics

  • How Much Does it Cost to Build a Nuclear Power Plant? (Dec 2023)

  • Low Hanging Fruit (Nov 2023)

  • Can We Reach Net-Zero and Achieve Modern Energy Services for All? (Nov 2023)

  • What Countries Have Decarbonized the Fastest? (Apr 2024)

• Climate Scenarios

  • Secret Sauce (Dec 2023)

  • Jaws of the Snake (Nov 2023)

• Mechanisms of Science Advice

  • Bamboozled! The UK Covid-19 Inquiry shows that political leaders need policy advice not science lessons (November 2023)

  • Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from “experts in expert advice” (March 2023)

  • Science Advice Under Pressure (April 2022)

  • The Incredible Absence of U.S. Science Advice and the Covid-19 Pandemic (June 2021)

  • Shadow Science Advice (May 2021)

• Scientific Integrity

  • Original Sin: The U.S. National Climate Assessment was Off Track from the Start (Nov 2023)

  • Should Universities Take Political Positions? (Oct 2023)

  • The Alimonti Retraction

    • "Think of the Implications of Publishing" (July 2023)

    • The Alimonti Addendum (August 2023)

  • A Major Error in IPCC WG1

    • Misinformation in the IPCC (March 2023)

    • A Tip from an IPCC Insider (May 2023)

  • "When scientific integrity is undermined in pursuit of financial and political gain" (March 2023)

  • Fishy Science (December 2021)

  • The Biden Administration Just Failed its First Science Integrity Test (February 2021)

  • Scientific Integrity in the Federal Agencies: An Unfinished Agenda (October 2020)

• Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

  • Stone of Madness: Misinformation research provides an academic veneer for political propaganda (Apr 2024)

  • Bamboozled! The UK Covid-19 Inquiry shows that political leaders need policy advice not science lessons (Nov 2023)

  • When Science Influencers Polarize Our Politics (Nov 2023)

  • An Introduction to The Honest Broker Framework

  • Perils of the “Garden of Forking Paths”

• The Culture and Politics of Climate Science

  • The New Apocalypticism (August 2023)

  • Does Climate Research have an Anti-Growth Problem? (August 2023)

  • Unsolicited Advice for the New IPCC Chair (June 2023)

  • The Political Agenda of the IPCC (May 2023)

  • Has the IPCC Outlived its Usefulness? (March 2023)

• What the Media Won’t Tell You About . . .

  • Wildfires

  • Hurricanes

    • 2023 Edition

    • 2022 Edition

  • U.S. Heat Waves

  • Drought in Western and Central Europe

  • Floods

  • Tornadoes

• The Future of Football

  • Part 1: Before the pandemic, the rise and decline

  • Part 2: Why is college football on Saturdays and the NFL on Sundays?

  • Part 3: Super Bowl Excitement Can't Hide Football's Continuing Decline

  • Part 4: Colorado Football’s Reality TV Experiment

  • Part 5: What Football Conference Realignment Tells Us About U.S. Universities (August 2023)

• Climate Science

  • Net-Zero Does Not Mean What You Think It Does (Tom Wigley, October 2023)

  • Can Climate Policy Change the Weather? (August 2023)

  • Signal and Noise (August 2023)

  • El Niño and U.S. Hurricane Damage (July 2023)

• Making Sense of Trends in Disaster Losses

  • Unbelievable: U.S. Flood Damage (Nov 2023)

  • U.S. Hurricane Overview 2023 (Nov 2023)

  • 21st Century Disasters (August 2023)

  • Part 1: What is a "normalization"?

  • Part 2: Normalized disaster losses in Europe 1995 to 2019

  • Part 3: Normalized Hurricane Losses in the United States, 1900 to 2021

  • Part 4: How would we know if disasters are becoming more costly due to climate change?

  • Part 5: Climate change and disaster losses

• Regulation of Trans Athletes in Elite Sport

  • What is a Woman?

  • Five Myths about Gender Inclusive Sport

  • Making Sense of Debate Over Transgender Athletes: Part 1

  • Making Sense of Debate Over Transgender Athletes: Part 2

  • The Problem with Outright Eligibility Bans of Trans Women in Women's Elite Sport

  • A "Cap Tie" Rule for Elite Trans Athletes

  • The Emerging Consensus on Transgender Athletes in Elite Sport

  • Is Opposition to Trans Athletes Really About the Old Testament?

• Sports Governance Potpourri

  • Slim to Win: Athletes describe a "toxic culture" inside the University of Colorado Boulder running program (June 2023)

  • What Selective Outrage over LIV Golf Says About Sportswashing (June 2022)

  • How Can FIFA be Held Accountable? (Nov 2022)

  • The Abuse of Kamila Valieva (Feb 2022)

  • How much money would college football players get paid if California's proposed new law was national? (May 2022)

  • Chromosome Sex Testing is Back! (June, 2022)

  • Reefer Madness, Dodgy Science and Anti-Doping Policy (July 2021)