environmental economics
Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Nordhaus economics
The most consequential number Nordhaus shared the 2018 Nobel for work he had been doing since the 1970s: integrating climate science with growth to calculate the optimal cost of decarbonization. His central finding: the most important variable is not the temperature target.... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Scientific consensus
Thirty-six years of confirmed predictions In 1988, James Hansen testified before the Senate that human-caused warming had begun. He presented three scenarios.... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: The Story
196 signatures, five treatments In a conference room in Paris in December 2015, delegates from 196 nations signed an agreement to hold warming below two degrees Celsius. By 2024, the global average had breached 1.5 for an entire calendar year.... Is energy the true currency?: Energy economists
The correlation nobody explains away In 1973, the price of oil quadrupled in three months. GDP in every industrialized nation fell. Unemployment rose. Inflation rose. The Keynesian models shattered on contact with a physical constraint....