Economist Danny Bressler on studying climate mortality, lessons from consulting, and how he went from Harvard Research Assistant to the White House to academia.

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

Scientific Reports - Estimates of country level temperature-related mortality damage functions

Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…

Their economic models produced a disaster, but they doubled down.

Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...

A new Columbia University Climate School study discovered that young people may be most at risk of heat-related deaths. CBS News environmental correspondent David Schechter reports.

Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.

Climate change impacts in models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) are either poorly documented or based on a small number of dated studies. Here, the authors estimate new damages for ...

Scientific Reports - Estimates of country level temperature-related mortality damage functions

Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.

Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.

Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.

Nature Climate Change - The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural...