An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4029050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Solomon Hsiang (0000-0002-2074-0829, Solomon Hsiang is Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, California, and is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Principal Investigator, Climate Impact Lab, .), Robert E Kopp (0000-0003-4016-9428, Robert E. Kopp is Director of the Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences and Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, both at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Principal Investigator, Climate Impact Lab, .) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3-32 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.32.4.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2899047754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 76 |
This article provides a brief introduction to the physical science of climate change, aimed towards economists. We begin by describing the physics that controls global climate, how scientists measure and model the climate system, and the magnitude of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide. We then summarize many of the climatic changes of interest to economists that have been documented and that are projected in the future. We conclude by highlighting some key areas in which economists are in a unique position to help climate science advance. An important message from this final section, which we believe is deeply underappreciated among economists, is that all climate change forecasts rely heavily and directly on economic forecasts for the world. On timescales of a half-century or longer, the largest source of uncertainty in climate science is not physics, but economics
Climate change · Climate commitment · Climate model · Climate science · Economic science · Economics · Effects of global warming · Global warming · Natural resource economics · Political economy of climate change · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Climate variability and models · Ecology
Economic consequences of climate change
Epidemiology’s Time of Need
The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries
More than a nuisance
Barren lives
The heat is on
The impact of Climate Change on Women and Mental Health
Church Membership and Economic Recovery
Cambio climático en la ciudad de Pereira, Colombia, en los últimos 50 años
Adaptation mitigates the negative effect of temperature shocks on household consumption
Tropical cyclones and climate change
The velocity of climate change
Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals
Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming
Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with economic production in the Caribbean and Central America
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
Assessing the present and future probability of Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation
Consequences of changing biodiversity
Climate Econometrics
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change
Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide
The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions
Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding
An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)
Amplification of flood frequencies with local sea level rise and emerging flood regimes
Attribution of atmospheric CO 2 and temperature increases to regions
Change points of global temperature
Consensus on consensus
Tropical cyclones and climate change
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |