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California's home insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike following January fires The California FAIR Plan Assn., which covers homeowners denied insurance, is seeking a 35.8% rate increase, though some policyholders could pay more or less depending on fire risk.

CA FAIR plan seeks 35.8% rate increase.

#climaterisk

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Contact the Governor | Governor of California You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!

Policy Options to Achieve US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Targets 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...

Biofuel policy is a confusing mish-mash of giveaways to ag with no climate benefits. A better approach?

"The lowest cost policy we study entails replacing all current biofuels policies with a modest carbon tax on fossil transportation fuels paired with a SAF tax credit."
www.nber.org/papers/w34326

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🚨TOMORROW🚨 in the Virtual Seminar in Climate Economics - Professor Wei Xiang from UMich on "Clean Growth and Environmental Policies in the Global Economy"

#EnergySky #EconSky

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Hooray for @weatherwest.bsky.social - breaking barriers between climate science, meteorology, academia and public communication!

Contact the Governor | Governor of California You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

To send a written note in support of SB79, go to www.gov.ca.gov/contact

You can also call at 916-445-2841

a classic

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

GHG emissions in China from 1990-2023, and in future scenarios under "Current Policies" and "High Ambition"

Headline number of Chinese 2035 NDC just announced:
7-10% below peak level, "striving to do better", also 3600 GW of solar and wind.
According to our analysis www.country-ambition.cgs.umd.edu/china
this is more in line with what "Current Policies" will already deliver, rather than "High Ambition"

Its worth noting that when the first modern climate models were published in 1970 it was hardly clear that there was a warming trend; if anything there had been flat or slightly cooling global temperatures for the past three decades:

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

🚨 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...

Clean Rides, Healthy Lives: The Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Air Quality and Infant Health 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...

US EV adoption 2010 - 2021 cleaned the air and improved infant and child health

www.nber.org/papers/w3427...

"Science for society" blurb from the paper: In a future with clean electricity and full electrification of buildings and private vehicles, the United States would emit about half the greenhouse gas pollution than it does today. However, buildings and vehicles would also use much more electricity, especially in the coldest weather. Here, we show that reinforcing distribution grids to accommodate these new peaks in electricity demand could cost Americans $2,800–$6,400 per household. We also show that “smart electrification”—accompanying electrification with measures that mitigate electricity demand peaks, such as reducing thermal demand, improving equipment efficiencies, and coordinating device operation—could reduce grid reinforcement costs by over two-thirds. We believe that achieving an affordable, all-electric future will require cooperation between engineers to develop enabling technologies, social scientists to guide technology development toward people’s wants and needs, and policymakers to pass laws or incentives that shape technology adoption.

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

The Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications! This fellowship allows graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project equivalent, with guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers.

Important new paper from
@marshallburke.bsky.social
on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in
@nature.com

"climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great new analysis that shows how a climate coalition could reduce emissions 7x more than current policies while raising ~$200B/yr in revenue, mostly from domestic carbon pricing.

I was surprised to see that >80% CO2 in the steel, cement, aluminum, fertilizers are already covered by carbon pricing!

Reports of the death of carbon pricing greatly exaggerated

LDEO postdocs traversing a volcanic dike on the Olomana Trail in Oahu. Credit: Brandon Shuck

📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours.

www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

Great news!
@UCDavisARE.bluesky.social
is hiring an Asst. Prof this year in agricultural and financial commodity markets. Happy to answer any questions about the position or department. Please apply by Nov. 3rd!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07305

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If you are not already registered for the series make sure to do so here beforehand for the zoom link:
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Join us this Thursday for the second in our great lineup of speakers for the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics - Irene Montasterolo on the materiality of climate risks and the Network for Greening the Financial System scenarios:
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#EconSky #GreenSky

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Child dies from rare measles-related complication, LA County health officials say Health officials reported the death of a Los Angeles County child from a complication of measles infection acquired during infancy.

Death from sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in a child in Los Angeles
SSPE is a rare sequel of #measles infection that appears years after the initial infection, and is uniformly fatal. So sorry for this family. As things are going on the US, we'll be seeing more of these cases.

The fastest way to start using & exploring the new 2024 1-year ACS data?

R with tidycensus + mapgl.

With just a few lines of code, you can pull down any of the thousands of variables available in the new data and explore on an interactive MapLibre map.

Submission: 8th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER

Hey, #EconSky! Got a policy-relevant paper that you want folks in DC to see? Present & publish it with NBER's Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy.

Submission deadline is Oct 20.

Conference is in DC on May 21, 2026.

More details below.

conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

We know that climate change has already changed the distribution of weather extremes, but how best to estimate a changing extreme value distribution?

This paper proposes parameterizing time-trending GEV parameters using climate model output and spatial pooling of observational data - very cool!