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For some reason, the topic of adaptation can sometimes turn me into a grumpy old man. Maybe it’s because I’ve sat through hours of presenta...

I've had the pleasure of working with a team of brilliant people on the American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks in the United States...

EPA announced this week the Clean Power Plan  to reduce carbon emissions of coal fired power plants by 30% by 2030 (relative to 2005 levels)...

Economists like to emphasize how people and businesses will adapt to climate change.  On a geological scale the world is warming very f...

As a general rule, people like to take credit when good things happen to them, but blame bad luck when things go wrong. This probably helps...

There has been a lot of chatter over the last few years about the purported African growth "miracle" -- the stylized fact that ...

A post a few months ago highlighted a new book coming out by Fischer, Byerlee, and Edmeades (FBE) on crop yield trends and food security. ...

As the growing season gets under way in the Midwest, we have a paper out today in Science on yield trends in the region, and the role of dr...

I'm late and out-of-order on my blog posting activities, in part because I've been blogging a little on energy in a different forum...

Any study that focuses on nonlinear temperature effects requires precise estimates of the exact temperature distribution.  Unfortunately,  m...