Climate Alarm is Not Alarmism

New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now

For Effective Climate Change Activism, Focus on Supply

To effect change, climate activists need to pursue both divestment and limiting demand for carbon emissions.

In a Summer of Extreme Weather, Climate Costs Remain Mysterious

The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.

Covid-climate links

My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order

Someone’s Going to Dim the Big Light

Solar geoengineering is fast, cheap, scary, and inevitable

How Virus Testing Is Just Like A Carbon Tax

Testing and taxing are important steps in the fights against the pandemic and climate change— and both have their limits.

Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Time of Coronavirus and Climate Change

Like climate economics, the economics of Covid-19 mean we need to take aggressive action, not incremental steps.

The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means

To make sense of the spread of Covid-19, economics—particularly black swan events and compound growth—can provide guidance.

How Economics Can Inform Coronavirus Decision-Making

When considering travel and other choices, economic principles can provide guidance.

An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change

The money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.

The Exxon Tax

The Numbers Behind Exxon’s Support for a Carbon Tax

China’s Carbon Neutrality Goal is Good Policy and Good Politics

The second-biggest economy’s new 2060 target could be a game changer if concrete policies follow.

Cities cut carbon

The pandemic has led to some obituaries for urban living, but metropolises are still the most desirable and climate-friendly places to reside

Heat kills

Weather extremes are intimately linked to even small increases in global average temperatures.

Climate Alarm is Not Alarmism

New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now

For Effective Climate Change Activism, Focus on Supply

To effect change, climate activists need to pursue both divestment and limiting demand for carbon emissions.

In a Summer of Extreme Weather, Climate Costs Remain Mysterious

The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.

Covid-climate links

My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order

Someone’s Going to Dim the Big Light

Solar geoengineering is fast, cheap, scary, and inevitable

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