Briefing #5, 14 November 2006
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In 2006, we launched a new email briefing about our Center’s science policy work. We are working to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs. Please let us know what information you might like to receive by emailing us. To receive notices of future Center briefings, please join our mailing list.

About the Center

Center Highlight

• The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research is recruiting for two faculty positions at the assistant/associate (with tenure) level in science and technology policy research with a focus on decision making under uncertainty.

• The Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop Report is now available online.

Prometheus is the Center’s weblog. Recent posts:

• Earmarking at CU-Boulder

• Normalized US Hurricane Damage: 1900-2005

• Mike Hulme on the Climate Debate

• The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: A Comment by Richard Tol

Sample of Recent Publications:

• Book review of William Sweet's Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy:
  Pielke, R.A., 2006. What just ain’t so: It is all too easy to underestimate the challenges posed by climate change Nature, Vol 443, pp. 753-754.

• Assessing the factors that account for increasing costs of weather related disasters in recent decades:
  Höppe, P. and R.A. Pielke, Jr. (eds.), 2006. Workshop on Climate Change and Disaster Losses: Understanding and Attributing Trends and Projections, Final Workshop Report. Hohenkammer, Germany, 25-26 May.

• Do scientists have choices in how they engage with policy and politics?
  Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2006. Self-Segregation of Scientists by Political Predispositions. Bridges, Vol. 11, September.

All articles are available via download from our website or can be requested by email.

Media Resources

• Hurricanes and Global Warming

• Politicization of Science

• Space Policy

• Drought Policy