Frank Errickson

We have a new paper from a multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort lead by @PrincetonSPIA, @UCBerkeley, and @rff out in @Nature that estimates the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) as $185, more than 3x larger than current U.S. federal estimate. Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@SharonSalzberg Don’t cling.

What's the best life advice you've ever heard?

@Capi_Planeta @ICAyCC_UNAM Yewww! Many congrats Bernie!!!

This is the smile of a person who, 10 years ago, dreamed of coming back to UNAM as a professor, and now it's a reality! I'm joining @ICAyCC_UNAM as faculty this fall!

The intuition behind this: an extra $ contributes less to your wellbeing as you get richer. Income (or equity) weighting captures this by placing greater weight on climate impacts affecting the poor. Since these impacts & global incomes are highly unequal, we get a higher SC-CO2.

We have a paper out in @ScienceMagazine today showing how new guidelines allowing for income weighting in federal cost-benefit analysis would affect the social cost of carbon. Main takeaway, the SC-CO2 increases nearly 8x to ~$1300/ton. @rff @ERGBerkeley science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@a_peterman Advisor gave this to me my first year. It’s a short, simple, + entertaining read. amazon.com/Economical-Wri…

👋🏾 #Econtwitter: What are your top recommendations of tools or "how tos" for Ph.D. students who want to improve their writing? [in Econ or Public Policy] Are we *recommending* AI these days? 🙏🏾

@KenCaldeira @dan_kammen has my favorite write-up on this exact question, “The Virtues of Mundane Science,” rael.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl…

Is there a tension between doing the most useful studies and doing the studies most likely to be published in a high-profile venue?

@dog4climate “Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🆕 New article in the Winter 2024 volume of @ReepAere: "Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy" by Stellio Del Campo (@StDelCampo), David Anthoff (@davidanthoff), and Ulrike Kornek Read it here (open access!): journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Registrations to become a GAIN mentor are now open! GAIN mentors are assigned to help guide a mentee one-on-one through the entire graduate application cycle in economics or related fields. ➡️ Register here: bit.ly/GAINMentors 🗓️ Deadline: April 21st Please share widely!

How to better represent institutions in sustainability models? Check our new @PNASNews paper that compares: - integrated assessment model (led by me) - engineering-economic optimization (@east_winds ) - agent-based model (@TanjaFilatova) A thread: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨 New publication 🚨 "Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy," w. @davidanthoff and U. Kornek in the @ReepAere! 📰 We review & synthesize estimates of inequality aversion for climate modeling. @MCC_Berlin @uni_lu @UCBerkeley @kieluni journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

New publication alert!📜 Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics influenced counties’ changes in air pollution emissions in the 40 years following the Clean Air Act. @NatureComms @ColumbiaMSPH nature.com/articles/s4146…

How can justice considerations be more fully incorporated into climate scenarios? See our new publication on a novel framework enabling a more holistic and multidimensional investigation of justice - nature.com/articles/s4155…

New paper out in Nature Climate Change today where we develop the first direct estimates of the social costs of hydrofluorocarbons (SC-HFCs) and the large climate benefits associated with global agreements that phase down their production and consumption. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Really cool/creative science linking octopus (octopi?) genetics and evidence of a past collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

@PhD_Genie stoopid.

Complete this sentence: Having a PhD doesn't necessarily mean that you are smart. But it does mean that you are ______________

What unfolds when ecosystems shift across national borders due to climate change? Thrilled to share our latest paper in @nature, which delves into the consequences of these climate-driven biome migrations on human well-being. nature.com/articles/s4158… A thread 🧵

14 million years…

@bprest & @kevinrennert for the win!