Christopher Callahan

The unelected official heading the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, continues to prevent Americans from discovering new insights on:

1) how earthquakes happen.
2) how mineral resources may be found and exploited.
3) how our planet works.

Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2 - Nature Coupling advances in socioeconomic projections, climate models, damage functions and discounting methods yields an estimate of the social cost of carbon of US$185 per tonne of CO2—triple the wide...

It’s good work! The other place to look for new damage function stuff since 2019 is all the work that went into the Biden social cost of carbon. e.g.: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scandinavian Swimmers

The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature 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...

This is the other one that has caught a lot of attention - soon to be out in QJE

www.nber.org/papers/w32450

The Global Economic Impact of Climate Change: An Empirical Perspective 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...

www.nber.org/papers/w34357

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War is hell, mash meme

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

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"soup for my family" is an all-timer imo. never seen anything like it

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

In this week's Nature we argue there is a pressing need for a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks. To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policy makers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake including the worst-case scenarios. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Indiana U. won a title and lost its soul | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, the pundits are so wrong about Dems and 2028.

Indiana University's football crown was the feel-good story of the year. Off the field...not so much

Ranked last for free speech, DEI cuts, slashing the humanities while paying its coach $13M under MAGA trustees

My column on how IU ranks No. 1 in moral bankruptcy www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

came from nca5 economics chapter i think

The null hypothesis here should of course be that they'll take any opportunity to end these lawsuits. On the other hand, the administration is <2 weeks out from arguing that federal law does NOT regulate greenhouse gases! Which seems to erase the only actual argument they have here.

SUNCOR ENERGY, INC., ET AL. V. COMM'RS BOULDER CTY., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.

New: The Supreme Court takes up a MAJOR climate case that asks whether federal law preempts (that is, forbids) state-level claims against fossil fuel companies for damages related to climate change.

Climate advocates urged SCOTUS not to take this up... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

colin

YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Here is a link that should work: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/brax8...

Valuing wildfire smoke–related mortality benefits from climate mitigation | PNAS Human-induced climate change has increased wildfire risks, associated air pollution, and health damages in North America. Despite its large potenti...

🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

God almighty, this preprint: exposed countries have a 30% higher debt-to-GDP ratio because of tropical cyclones since 1990 eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

I would settle for one (1) grant

The better the science gets, the more dangerous the endangerment becomes.

Paper led by @minghaoqiu.bsky.social in collaboration with @ivanhigueram.com @marshallburke.bsky.social and others...

Valuing wildfire smoke–related mortality benefits from climate mitigation | PNAS Human-induced climate change has increased wildfire risks, associated air pollution, and health damages in North America. Despite its large potenti...

🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Quick reminder that 3 °C of warming would set Europe up for heat domes that kill 30,000 people in a single week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quick reminder that 3 °C of warming would set Europe up for heat domes that kill 30,000 people in a single week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...