Working on econometrics and climate? 🌦️ The Econometrics Journal & EMCC call for papers for a new special issue on 'Econometric Modeling of Climate Change and the Green Transition' - submit by February 28th, 2026. More information on the EMCC website: sites.google.com/view/emcccon... #Econsky

Thanks to all the attendees and presenters for making the trip to Victoria for the 9th Conference on Econometric Modelling of Climate Change tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic! See you next year in Aalborg! #EconSky

There’s also a {getspanel} #rstats package that implements the same methods for panel data. Made by @moritzpschwarz.bsky.social www.moritzschwarz.org/getspanel/

"Going deep: Can CO2 be locked away below the seafloor?" - great overview on our Solid Carbon project for offshore geological CO2 storage by the team at New Frontiers (who are kindly funding the research): sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/funding-fina... #Econsky

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn... You: world class scholar, looking to make a move Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy Pls share widely!

Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Plz share + apply! seedfunding.stanford.edu/apply/U5N4

The preliminary programme for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change at the University of Victoria, 2025 is now available online! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Victoria in August! #EconSky tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

How much did the carbon tax actually impact inflation? My latest for @TheHubCanada: thehub.ca/2025/05/22/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Interesting meta analysis on the social cost of carbon - quite surprising to see authors themselves be variables in a regression!

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

Only 4 more days to submit! The abstract submission deadline for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change is coming up on April 17th! #EconSky

Today the BC carbon tax has been removed. It's unfortunate that a simple climate policy had become so politicized. Talk about ironic timing: our paper on the CO2 response to carbon pricing just came out in the April issue of Energy Economics. Hot off the press, cold in the policy grave. #Econsky

Heads (and elbows) up: The call for abstracts for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (University of Victoria, BC, Canada – Aug. 27-28, 2025) is open until April 17th! #Econsky Looking forward to seeing you in August! More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Thanks to the Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund for supporting our Solid Carbon project on offshore geological carbon storage solidcarbon.ca! @uvic.ca Many open economic questions to be explored - reach out if you're working on the economics of carbon storage and removal! #EconSky

In Nature Climate Change, @chrisbataille.bsky.social and I describe three common situations when energy/economic models are detrimental to climate policymaking efforts 🧵 rdcu.be/ecSMX

Like Vincent says, this is a big release with a shedload of new features. Same small footprint, though ;-) Here’s quick rundown of some of my favourites... #rstats #dataviz

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Gridded GDP estimates over time - looks like a very useful dataset!

Check out this great new video about Our World in Data from @socsci.ox.ac.uk featuring our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCz6EIcSFQ8

Call for papers now open! The 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change will take place at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada on Aug. 27-28th 2025. Submit your abstracts by April 17th! #econsky Looking forward to seeing you in Victoria! More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Sea level rise risks, adaptation strategies, and real estate prices in Singapore" By Sumit Agarwal, Yu Qin, Tien Foo Sing, & Changwei Zhan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have the privilege of presenting some of my work at the CWEC/CFÉC brown bag tomorrow. Presenting a synthetic control study of the socio-economic impacts of the Inuvik-Tuktoyktuk Highway.

Inference with a single treated cluster www.restud.com/inference-wi...

How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔 In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)" Everything David Spiegelhalter writes is worth reading. In this case though he does imply that other things definitely do exist, which remains to be proved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great resource for a regression-based (and my favourite) solution to staggered treatment!

I 💕 that my favorite newspaper @derstandard.at used content from @instrumenthull.bsky.social's iconic meme page for their interview with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social. Read the full interview here: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Save the date: 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (EMCC) will be at the University of Victoria BC, Canada, Aug. 27-28, 2025. Come if you want to learn about climate and econometrics (or just want to visit Vancouver Island...) Formal call for papers to follow in 2025. #EconSky

Behavioral economics: people cannot add or subtract Macroeconomics: *maybe* people cannot deal with the fact that the entire cross sectional distribution is a state variable

Very interesting paper with a disappointing result for those who want to improve policies by evaluating them: policy evaluation seems to have little effect on subsequent policies!

Link to the paper in Nature Communications @naturecomms.bsky.social - Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globallyhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51355-0 🍃

Looks like a very interesting idea to modernize and improve the publishing process in Econometrics!

A veritable whos-who of the scientists behind our physical climate understanding of net-zero have a new paper in Nature, making the case for "Geological Net Zero" where fossil CO2 can only credibly counterbalanced by permanent removal: www.nature.com/artic...

What are the drivers of human-black bear conflict? And does killing black bears reduce conflict in the long run? We have a new pre-print to answer these questions using more than 60,000 human black-bear conflict events in BC. Paper is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Understanding the consequences of potential overshoot above the 1.5°C warming level has been the focus of the PROVIDE project and the work by a great group of interdisciplinary authors has just been published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s what we found: 1/

New work in Nature Communications about the CO2 airborne fraction, the part of emissions that remains in the atmosphere www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to have @mpbitler.bsky.social delivering our 2024 Lansdowne Lecture on “Entitlements, Block Grants, Work Requirements, and the Safety Net: Evidence from the US in Times of Economic Crisis”. Open to the public! Join us in DTB A110 at UVic this Thursday at 7pm.

A few days ago, we published an article in Science. Time for a short post about it. We tried to contribute to an important debate: How well are we actually reducing our carbon emissions? science.org/doi/10.1126/... @felixpretis.bsky.social @patrickkloesel.bsky.social

8th annual conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (EMCC-VIII): Deadline for extended abstracts/papers: May 15 University of Cambridge, King's College, Aug 16 & 17 tinyurl.com/4wzak7nb

The Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz is offering 5 post-doctoral fellowships @universityofgraz.bsky.social for 3 months, designed for PostDoc researchers who wish to collaborate with one (or more) of our research groups. 📆 Apply until Apr 30 Info 👇 climate-change.uni-graz.at/en/news/clim...

As a fan of base R 'plot', this new plot2 function looks great!

Stoked to announce a new release of `plot2`, the powerful and lightweight (0-dep) extension for #rstats base plotting! github.com/grantmcdermo... What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.

Our Introduction to the Themed Issue on Climate Econometrics is now published in the Journal of Econometrics - includes theory and applied papers on climate from bootstrapping to sea ice! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Xmas coming early: Really excited to publish a paper in the Journal of Econometrics w Felix Pretis & Xiyu Jiao! Here's a short thread about what we do - and how we show the effects of outliers when estimating damages from climate change.