CHOTINER: You signed up to the Paris Agreement? COUNTRY: Yes, proud moment for us. CHOTINER: I ask because I'm looking at your planned fossil fuel production... COUNTRY: We're hoping other countries can make up the deficit. CHOTINER: I see. For the common good. COUNTRY: Exactly.

In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people. The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.

(CNBC) - Seasonal hiring in the retail industry is poised to fall to its lowest level since the 2009 recession, an early warning sign that the holiday shopping season could be softer than expected .. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/s...

CHOTINER: You signed up to the Paris Agreement? COUNTRY: Yes, proud moment for us. CHOTINER: I ask because I'm looking at your planned fossil fuel production... COUNTRY: We're hoping other countries can make up the deficit. CHOTINER: I see. For the common good. COUNTRY: Exactly.

Always down for some dadposting

Flight radar: ‘Aalborg Airport is currently closed due to drones in the airspace. Three inbound flights have been diverted to other airports.’

Very good news

Weather-knowing folk, what happens when two major storms overlap?

I would co-sign both points, one nuance: On the second point, we don't have great estimates on the price effects of increasing livestock productivity in the GS. At least some of the climate gains will be dampened by increased consumption, and I don't think we know how big that offset will be.

@mclem.org on the broader economic effects of high skill migrants: "From 1990 to 2010, rising numbers of H-1B holders caused 30–50 percent of all productivity growth in the US economy. This means that the jobs and wages of most Americans depend in some measure on these workers."

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Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Sending love to all autistic friends & family today.

Oddly none of the cited literature makes the claim that neonatal autism causes Tylenol use, despite the fact that these hypotheses are symmetrical and have exactly the same amount of evidentiary support.

Okay we're there.

*staring at two decades of stagnant productivity growth* what we need is more crypto exposure

Better weather forecast information is an important dimension for adapting agriculture to our changing climate

Really sad to hear of the passing of Keith aka JD Twitch. Someone who forged local community while supporting artists from all over the globe, and helped broaden the horizons of many folk of my generation.

Rather than adapting to climate change, future foods can be deployed to fight it. One restaurant in San Francisco wants to show how that can be done

You're able to read this post because it's on a website which doesn't alter your probability of seeing it based on viewpoint.

It's Friday, we're coo-posting

This is an important argument that folk focused on climate and development would do well to engage with

My “death of consensus reality” t-shirt is raising questions that nobody else asked because they saw a different t-shirt

I missed this when it came out- a brilliant review piece on lead, which has been largely tackled in high-income countries but remains a major health hazard for the rest of the world, and one that we know not nearly enough about

Very good summary piece focusing on the US home insurance market. As it was yesterday, "Don't talk about climate" is terrible advice.

A feature of low social mobility is you select a management class who've never experienced the need to stand up to a bully

A substantial portion of the second largest city in the US burned to the ground *in January* but sure let's "play down causes like climate change". Wildly irresponsible advice to give to policymakers.

look what you made me do (#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

Love to ride the Montgomery County migraine bus

🚨 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...

Oh hey carbon pricing

Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Not me weighing the culinary history of much of humanity vs never having a roll and tottie scone again

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Hello #EconSky! I am trying to get a hold of recent nationally representative microdata on agriculture & livestock income for Vietnam. If you know how to access the 2022 VHLSS or can suggest other resources, please let me know!

Willpower alone is unlikely to defeat distraction machines with algorithms that constantly adjust to steal attention. We explain why this should concern economists

We’ve just launched the Risk‑KAN Starter Pack! A curated toolkit to kickstart collaboration, insight, and impact at the intersection of emergent risks, climate change & disaster resilience 🌍 And stay informed on all the events organized by our Working Group leads. Take a look: go.bsky.app/SpGzhJJ

Iceland's ORF Genetics raises €5M to scale up their platform to produce low-cost growth factors in barley. Their products are already used in commercial cultivated meat processes. agfundernews.com/orf-genetics...

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Meanwhile, in Scotland

"A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters."

Come for the immortal jellyfish, stay for the naked mole rats.

LISTEN TO MIKE. BUY A TICKET TO PUPSTOCK

oh hey it's @ekkoastral.bsky.social

I have no been out in DC in a minute but damn it is quiet

Very useful discussion on the perils of using micro/cross-sectional parameter estimates in inferring the aggregate effects of policies/shocks. This is pervasive in Economics, yet the two effects can even have the opposite signs. (Example in next post.) voxdev.org/topic/method...

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Yet another reason to encourage friends, family and colleagues to get off Twitter.

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...