Books — February 2015

Climate Shock

Read the NYT op-ed, the infamous pop quiz, our Salon feature, or Foreign Affairs and Atlantic essays. Watch the TEDx talk: “From Climate Shock to Geoengineering.”

Geoffrey Heal in Journal of Economic Literature (September 2017)
“Klimaschock ist ein wohlinformierter…leidenschaftlicher Aufruf zu Handeln,” Buchkultur. [German: “Climate Shock is a well informed…passionate call for action.”]
“Förderung für Ölheizungen ist Irrsinn,” German interview and book review in Austrian daily Der Standard.
Review by Peter Kirby-Harris for Bright Blue: “Weitzman and Wagner offer a profound insight.”
Conversation with Romesh Vaitilingam, aired as Vox EU podcast
Climate Shock is among The Globalist’s Top 10 books of 2015
Nature recommends five books to climate negotiators in Paris, Climate Shock among them
Climate Shock is among the Financial Times‘ Best Books of 2015
Climate Shock is on the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 longlist
Peter Orszag reviews Climate Shock in his Bloomberg View column, subsequently coining the “11/11 climate combo“: an 11 percent chance of eventual 11 degrees Fahrenheit change
Climate Shock is a Financial Times Summer Book 2015.
Martin Sandbu calls Climate Shock “a terrific new book” in the Financial Times “Free Lunch” column.
Martin Wolf discusses Climate Shock in the Financial Times, calling it “punchy” in “Why climate uncertainty justifies action” (June 9, 2015), and highlighting its discussion on geoengineering in “A moonshot to save a warming planet” (June 23, 2015).
Russ Roberts talks to Martin L. Weitzman on EconTalk: “Your book is a breath of fresh air.”
‘Review of reviews‘ by Rachael Sotos for the Carbon Tax Center
Review by William D. Nordhaus in The New York Review of Books
strategy + business review “It’s Getting Hot in Here” by Katie Fehrenbacher
Chronicle of Higher Education review by John Quiggin on “Gambling on Climate Change“
Financial Times review by Pilita Clark (Chinese version via FT中文网)
Salon feature article on why “The planet won’t notice you recycle, and your vote doesn’t count“
New York Times Economic View column by Robert J. Shiller on “How Idealism, Expressed in Concrete Steps, Can Fight Climate Change“
Times Higher Education review by Swenja Surminski
Nature review (“Economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman deliver a highvoltage shock in their analysis of the costs of climate change.”)
Publishers Weekly review (“Top 10: Business & Economics” for Spring 2015)