Roger A. Pielke

Roger A. Pielke senior ( born October 22, 1946) is an American climatologist.

Background

In 1968 he received a B. A. in Mathematics at Towson State College, an MS in 1969 and 1973, the Ph.D. in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University.

1971-1974 he worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and from 1974-1981 as an associate professor at the University of Virginia. 1981-2006 he was a professor at Colorado State University dean at Colorado State University from 1985 to 1988. 1999-2006 he was a state employee climatologist in Colorado and had various research professor at Duke University (2003-2006) as in the 2004 University of Arizona. Since 2005, Pielke working on Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ( CIRES ) in Boulder as emeritus at Colorado State University.

He was the American Meteorological Society Committee on Weather Forecasting and Analysis from temporary, was a member of the American Meteorological Society as the American Geophysical Union, publisher of the Monthly Weather Review for the U.S. National Science Report for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and worked at the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences the Scientific online Letters on the Atmosphere with.

Position on climate change

The usual approach to climate policy and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), global models to infer individual regions, he considers wrong, calling them top- down approach. He explicitly criticized beyond the Summary for Policymakers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC methodology and content (literally cherry picking ) on one side.

He beats the other hand, before, starting from regional risk assessments (bottom up) different anthropogenic climate drivers to look beyond the global carbon dioxide emissions, which are in a reciprocal relationship with agriculture and land use.

Together with Hans von Storch and Richard Tol, he called in the news magazine Der Spiegel the resignation of IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri and a reform of the committee, following allegations of poor handling of potential or actual conflicts of interest.

Publications

Pielke has published over 300 scientific publications, 50 book chapters, and is co-author of 9 books. An overview of his publications can be found on the Pielke Research Group website.

  • Pielke, RA, 1984: Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling. 1st Edition, Academic Press, New York.
  • Pielke, R. A., 1990: The Hurricane. Routledge Press, London.
  • Cotton, W. R. and R. A. Pielke, 1995: Human impacts on weather and climate, Cambridge University Press, New York.
  • Pielke, RA, 1995: A primer on weather and climate.
  • Pielke, R. A. and R. P. Pearce, Editors, 1994: Mesoscale modeling of the atmosphere. American Meteorological Society Monograph, Volume 25
  • Pielke, R. A., Jr. and R. A. Pielke, Sr., 1997: Hurricanes: Their nature and impacts on society. John Wiley and Sons, England.
  • Pielke, R. A., Jr. and R. A. Pielke, Sr., editor, 2000: Storms, Volumes I and II, Routledge Press, London.
  • Pielke, RA, Sr., 2002. Mesoscale meteorological modeling. 2nd Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
  • Kabat, P., Claussen, M., Dirmeyer, P. A., J.H.C. Gash, L. Bravo de Guenni, M. Meybeck, R. A. Pielke Sr., C. J. Vorosmarty, R.W.A. Hutjes, and S. Lutkemeier, Editors, 2002: Vegetation, water, humans and the climate: A new perspective on interactive System. on Global Change - The IGBP Series Springer

Family

Pielke is married, his son Roger A. Pielke Jr. is a political scientist and also active in the climate field.

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