A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪

For those who want a figure! "... before 2003, sequencing a hot day after another hot day can nearly double the mortality effect of that hot day ... the compounding model yields an [Aug. 2003] death toll that is closer to the total ... than the standard model ..."

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

Mercifully averted @ivanhigueram.com's hypothetical LinkedIn version of this (... “Some look at the world as it is and ask why. We looked at environmental hazards and said… why not us?” 🌟 #ProudMoment #ChangeMakers #Humbled #ClimateWarriors #Innovation #Leadership #AtlasDrop). Check out the site!

Hsiang & Burke NYT op-ed on climate change (incl. citations]: "We predict that workers will become less productive, less happy & more prone to safety errors. Demands on public services will increase while the cost of servicing new debt will probably rise." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥 eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Reupping this trade model run on 25% MEX, 25% CAN, and 10% PRC cross sector import tariffs. Because…they’re back!!!

NEW: Mass heat mortality events are coming. In our new preprint, we project tens of thousands of deaths per week in Europe, if the weather patterns that produced heat waves historically happen again at future -- or even current -- global temperatures. eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Wildfire smoke routinely exceeds national air quality stds. Officials can seek exemptions for smoke events, but thats getting more complicated as smoke becomes more commonplace. They can also make steeper cuts to other sources of pollution — but that may not work if smoke events continue to ⬆️.

New paper characterizing trends in wildfire smoke PM2.5 in the US, incl. updated daily dataset and implications for air quality regulation. Below is animation of 2023. Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Data (BETA version): www.stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke Quick thread:

I was halfway home from the airport when this guerrilla poetry caught my eye on the M60 this evening. Fitting label for a city bus.

My chapter together with @ajsw.info on "Forecasting the Macroeconomic Effects of Physical Climate Risk" has now been published in the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting

* Please Share * We are hiring a full-time two-year RA! (or pre-doc?). Very excited about this position because you could be paired to work with many awesome economists at Batten (Ben Castleman, Andrew Simon, Derek Wu, Tim Layton) and myself! More info down here 👇 jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Even if they weren't so deadly, climate change increasing the habitable area for mosquitoes is terrible because they are extremely annoying.

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc @AereOrg

Adjusting energy assistance programs to cover heat-protective spending as well as cold-protective spending is a no-brainer adaptation strategy

To all economics PhD applicants, we would like to draw your attention to the PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The PhD is for economists and scientists interested in issues related to the environment, climate change, energy, development, poverty, health, transport, inequality..

120 CEA alumni urge congressional action to support the Current Population Survey. Grateful to Bernanke, Boskin, Furman, Heckman, Hubbard, Stiglitz & so many others for speaking up. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2024...

The Center for Business and Public Policy at the Gies College of Business is hiring a post-doc in environmental/health economics. Come work with me and David Molitor! Apply by Jan 15 for full consideration. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Well, hydrogen friends waiting for the 45V guidance, I have some very bad news for you. California is proposing to extend its biogas / RNG loopholes for hydrogen production through 2045. See pp. 29-31 of the staff ISOR, available as part of the LCFS proposal that dropped yesterday.

Briefing Book is an awesome new econ policy newsletter by former White House CEA staffers. I'm grateful they let me write a post about how the Circular A-4 update will improve analysis of climate regs, www.briefingbook.info/p/the-new-ci...

Taylor Swift as Figure 29.14 (salmon)

Hiring committees, take note!