Vincent Thivierge

Forest Futures | LinkedIn Forest Futures | 119 followers on LinkedIn. Research & partnerships driving next-gen forest stewardship for climate, nature, communities, and the economy in Canada | Forest Futures Canada is a new...

Forest Futures at the University of Ottawa is hiring a postdoctoral fellow and a senior research associate to study forest conservation and management in Canada. (www.linkedin.com/company/fore...)

Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

Jacquelyn Pless in Toronto! Awesome news for Canada. I was starting to get jealous of Switzerland and their recent fancy hires.

Awesome work indeed! Thanks for sharing.

Option Value of Apex Predators: Evidence from a River Discontinuity Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

@alexandreshields.bsky.social je crois que ce nouveau cahier de recherche (de @eyalfrank.bsky.social et al) sur la réduction des risques d'accidents de la route grâce à la présence des loups sur la rive nord versus sud du Saint-Laurent saura certainement vous intéresser: www.nber.org/papers/w34377

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

OK, here we go...

I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.

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Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

The only questions you ever need to ask of people who want to peddle this issue are:

"What do you mean by merit? How do you measure it? Is there only one definition of merit?"

They will not be able to answer The Qs because they haven't thought about it. Because, in turn, IT'S NOT ABOUT MERIT.

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For? Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

We have had this precise discussion many times before, with the invention of the book, radio, TV, the internet, etc. Knowledge of these discssions are freely available, but apparently the WSJ can't find it or doesn't understand its relevance.

Might this kind of thing be what professors are for?

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Noise reduction benefits from EV adoption in the US estimated at $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in urban areas

www.nber.org/papers/w34298

UK Supreme Court Hands Down a Groundbreaking Decision Requiring The Assessment of “Scope 3” GHG Emissions for a Proposed Oil Development: R (Finch) v Surrey County Council And Others | Insights | Vins... In a landmark judgment handed down on 20 June 2024, R (Finch) v Surrey County Council and others [2024] UKSC 20, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that “Scope 3” greenhouse gas (GHG) e...

This argument of "a fully elastic global oil supply curve" seems to be slowly changing in the UK (www.velaw.com/insights/uk-...) Hopefully this can inspire lawmakers in Canada.

Under the UNFCC Canada is not responsible for the downstream combustion emissions of the fossil fuels we export. So we conveniently ignore them (as in Ksi Lisims Assessment and BC and fed announcements today), though those GHGs are more than Canada's territorial emissions to the global atmosphere.

I'm trying really hard to live peacefully with the ones in my basement. It would be so much easier if I didn't get startled by them running away so fast!

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

The DOE Climate Working Group report was an absolute disaster from the beginning. It was created in secret with a hand-picked group of contrarians who do not represent any legitimate scientific position. The report ignored 99% of the scientific literature while employing selective data presentation, misrepresentation of scientific studies, misinterpretation of established science, speculative reasoning, and unsupported assumptions. Additionally, the group was clearly unprepared to meaningfully address the substantive critiques raised during the comment period. This disastrous episode should put to rest proposals for adversarial "red team-blue team" exercises in climate science. The field already undergoes extraordinary scrutiny and replication, making it among the most thoroughly validated scientific disciplines. While uncertainties exist in climate science, they are well-characterized and constrained—and these remaining uncertainties do not undermine the core findings that climate

I've been getting requests from reporters about the disbanding of the DOE Climate Working Group. Here are some comments. More to come on my Substack (www.theclimatebrink.com).

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

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...

trains are such a great example of how the future is here, if we want it and are willing to subsidize it

What an impressive shift from FF to renewables and storage for new generation capacity over the last 2 decades in the US (www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...)

Using a RV to access wild spaces in the US while (though arguably unknowingly) destroying them elsewhere. The irony.

Developing a new method to answer whether environmental markets actually improve allocative efficiency. California's RECLAIM program improved allocative efficiency, but the US's NOx Budget Trading Program did not, from Kyle C. Meng and Vincent Thivierge https://www.nber.org/papers/w34111

A point made insufficiently: nations of the world are lining up to poach US scientists and Harvard-bound students. They are not coming together to think about the hole in global science the Trump administration is creating. That's a problem.

Three issues with the term "decarbonized" oil:
i) It is silly. Oil contains carbon and emits CO2 when combusted.
ii) Doesn't even make sense for production emissions, because carbon capture and storage doesn't capture all emissions (can be <50%)
iii) Our trading partners know (i) and (ii)

Excited to open the call for papers for the 40th Canadian Econometric Study Group (CESG) conference. The conference will be in Ottawa from October 17 to October 19, this year's theme is `Credible Econometrics'. For more details, see caneconometrics.ca/annualMeetin...
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GiveWell sought an independent check on the evidence supporting >$1 billion it has granted to its top charities. This fall, Alex Cohen asked whether we could obtain the datasets needed to reproduce the underlying RCTs. We said yes; charging only a modest fee to cover our time.

🧵 + 🐀 + blog post!

#cdnecon do I spy @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social au discours du Trône?