Its worth noting that when the first modern climate models were published in 1970 it was hardly clear that there was a warming trend; if anything there had been flat or slightly cooling global temperatures for the past three decades:

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

US EV adoption 2010 - 2021 cleaned the air and improved infant and child health www.nber.org/papers/w3427...

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

The Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications! This fellowship allows graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project equivalent, with guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers.

Important new paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in @nature.com "climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great new analysis that shows how a climate coalition could reduce emissions 7x more than current policies while raising ~$200B/yr in revenue, mostly from domestic carbon pricing. I was surprised to see that >80% CO2 in the steel, cement, aluminum, fertilizers are already covered by carbon pricing!

Reports of the death of carbon pricing greatly exaggerated

📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

Great news! @UCDavisARE.bluesky.social is hiring an Asst. Prof this year in agricultural and financial commodity markets. Happy to answer any questions about the position or department. Please apply by Nov. 3rd! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07305

Join us this Thursday for the second in our great lineup of speakers for the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics - Irene Montasterolo on the materiality of climate risks and the Network for Greening the Financial System scenarios: cepr.org/events/event... #EconSky #GreenSky

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Death from sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in a child in Los Angeles SSPE is a rare sequel of #measles infection that appears years after the initial infection, and is uniformly fatal. So sorry for this family. As things are going on the US, we'll be seeing more of these cases.

The fastest way to start using & exploring the new 2024 1-year ACS data? R with tidycensus + mapgl. With just a few lines of code, you can pull down any of the thousands of variables available in the new data and explore on an interactive MapLibre map.

Hey, #EconSky! Got a policy-relevant paper that you want folks in DC to see? Present & publish it with NBER's Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. Submission deadline is Oct 20. Conference is in DC on May 21, 2026. More details below. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Another excellent addition to our Focus Issue on Climate Change Informed Cat Modeling at Environmental Research Climate iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

The worst of both worlds - DOE not withdrawing report AND refusing to respond to public comments on it. But the substantive question is related to how it is used to support (or not) EPA's proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding - still TBD I guess?

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Law skeeps: can someone explain what’s going on with the the lawsuit between EDF/UCS and the DOE. Why did DOE disband the CWG? Was it to avoid having to turn over documents? What are the implications for the report itself?

Today marks a major development in U.S. climate policy. Gov. Newsom, the CA Assembly & Senate just released the final cap-and-trade—now called cap-and-invest—reauthorization bill: AB 1207. 1/ #climatesky #energysky

Part of me is sad I will never see DOE's attempt to respond to the excellent comments from the scientific and economic community on its awful climate science report A larger part is relieved this document will be expunged from the administrative record A small but real victory for accuracy and fact

A great contribution to our focus collection in @iopp-environment.bsky.social ER: Climate on climate change and catastrophic risk modeling. Check out other papers in the collection here: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

Chief Justice Roberts (2007): “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.

This is the opposite of science.

What's the future of carbon pricing? To answer, one must understand political economics. More than 800 scholars have realized this and signed up for the 9/9 Webinar by @eaere.bsky.social on this exact topic. You can still do it: www.eaere.org/events/suppo...

Imagine you are the parent of an asthmatic kid: "Comparing the three years before and three years after the closure in the nearby community of Avalon, they found an immediate 20 percent decrease in weekly ER visits for respiratory problems and a 40 percent decrease in visits for pediatric asthma."

The larger-than-usual downward revision last month was in large part driven by a negative skew in the job growth distribution among late reporting firms. That’s unusual, but it’s happened before when the pace of job growth slows rapidly. This print is more evidence that was the case

Its not just climate science that's wrong in DOE's dreadful climate report - the economics is terrible too! salatainstitute.harvard.edu/environmenta...

New paper out! We looked at how warming oceans & socioeconomic change shape the future of mangroves worldwide. @ioppublishing.bsky.social TLDR: Climate change could stall restoration efforts & deepen global inequalities. Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Fun fact: this would be true if we lived on Pluto

ICE and DHS are proposing (again!) to limit student visas to 4 years before requiring reauthorization. Makes no sense for PhD programs. See something, say something. Comment here by Sept 29. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.

Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics starting back up 🚨🚨TOMORROW🚨🚨 with an amazing line up of fall speakers, beginning with Obie Porteous on agricultural trade and climate change impacts in Africa Line up here: cepr.org/events/event... Make sure to register for the zoom link #econsky

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

DOE's embarrassment of a "climate science" report is 150 pages where as this response from the scientific community is 500. My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek. See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here 👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Our utility wildfire staff attorney, Eric Macomber, wrote a long post summarizing changes to utility liability for wildfire that have occurred across the West this year.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

In 2005, Katrina's 3-day track forecast was off by ~150 miles. Today, 3-day errors average closer to 60 miles. Forecast skill improves. The stakes keep rising.

New policies aimed at increasing energy affordability could make prices worse. ⚡🏠 In a recent If/Then blog, RFF research finds that rolling back clean energy incentives could create more volatility in energy markets and raise costs. Read more: www.resources.org/common-resou...

Janet Actually Yelling

Do we still do sirens for new working papers? If so then 🚨Working Paper Alert🚨-- "Housing Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States", joint with Ari Binder and Max Risch Read it here: www.census.gov/library/work...

Intel immediately files with the SEC warning that Trump's government stake could kill their international sales because apparently foreign customers aren't thrilled about buying chips from America's newest state-run enterprise. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

NCAR strategic plan mentions climate change zero times. h/t Kevin Trenberth, who also pointed out that there is a unit in NCAR called Climate and Global Dynamics Division d3opzdukpbxlns.cloudfront.net/34fc0287-fec...

The most important U.S. climate legislation over the next few years is out! ASM Irwin's draft California Assembly Bill 1207 reauthorizes California's ground breaking GHG cap-and-trade (C&T) program. Here are 5 key takeaways from AB 1207 1/

My department at @natureatcal.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Prof of Forest Health. Please share and apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05082