NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

Was your train delayed or cancelled this weekend? Mine was. Do you crave research that speaks to this particular experience? Look no further. In a new paper, @xinmingdu.bsky.social and I quantify how much rail safety and operations are affected by the weather.

A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪

For those who want a figure! "... before 2003, sequencing a hot day after another hot day can nearly double the mortality effect of that hot day ... the compounding model yields an [Aug. 2003] death toll that is closer to the total ... than the standard model ..."

Christopher Callahan@ccallahan45.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨☀️🔥 NEW: In August 2003, Europe was struck by a catastrophic heat wave. What can we learn from this event today? Using new machine learning and econometric tools, we show in PNAS that climate change contributed to 6,000 out of 15,000 deaths in France… (1/2) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

Postdoctoral Scholar - Environmental Science & Policy

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Mercifully averted @ivanhigueram.com's hypothetical LinkedIn version of this (... “Some look at the world as it is and ask why. We looked at environmental hazards and said… why not us?” 🌟 #ProudMoment #ChangeMakers #Humbled #ClimateWarriors #Innovation #Leadership #AtlasDrop). Check out the site!

Marshall Burke@marshallburke.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Hsiang & Burke NYT op-ed on climate change (incl. citations]: "We predict that workers will become less productive, less happy & more prone to safety errors. Demands on public services will increase while the cost of servicing new debt will probably rise." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Opinion | We Study Climate Change. It Endangers You and Your Children.

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NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research

NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

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🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥 eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Reupping this trade model run on 25% MEX, 25% CAN, and 10% PRC cross sector import tariffs. Because…they’re back!!!

Kyle Meng@kylemeng.com · 2y ago

Lots of takes on new Trump tariffs. Here's a quick general equilibrium analysis. Grabbed an off-the-self quantitative trade model (multisector armington) calibrated to '22 global trade flows. Fed in 25% MEX, 25% CAN, and 10% PRC tariffs across sectors. What happens to U.S. consumer prices? 1/3

NEW: Mass heat mortality events are coming. In our new preprint, we project tens of thousands of deaths per week in Europe, if the weather patterns that produced heat waves historically happen again at future -- or even current -- global temperatures. eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Wildfire smoke routinely exceeds national air quality stds. Officials can seek exemptions for smoke events, but thats getting more complicated as smoke becomes more commonplace. They can also make steeper cuts to other sources of pollution — but that may not work if smoke events continue to ⬆️.

Heatmap News@heatmap.news · 2y ago

Is wildfire smoke regulated? It's complicated. @emilypont.bsky.social investigates below, feat. new research from @marshallburke.bsky.social:

New paper characterizing trends in wildfire smoke PM2.5 in the US, incl. updated daily dataset and implications for air quality regulation. Below is animation of 2023. Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Data (BETA version): www.stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke Quick thread:

I was halfway home from the airport when this guerrilla poetry caught my eye on the M60 this evening. Fitting label for a city bus.

My chapter together with @ajsw.info on "Forecasting the Macroeconomic Effects of Physical Climate Risk" has now been published in the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting

Edward Elgar Publishing@elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 NEW: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in #Macroeconomic Forecasting by Michael P. Clements & Ana Beatriz Galvão Chapter 14 is #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... @mpfarrho.bsky.social @danilocascaldi.bsky.social #Econometrics

* Please Share * We are hiring a full-time two-year RA! (or pre-doc?). Very excited about this position because you could be paired to work with many awesome economists at Batten (Ben Castleman, Andrew Simon, Derek Wu, Tim Layton) and myself! More info down here 👇 jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Pre-Doctoral Associate, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

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Even if they weren't so deadly, climate change increasing the habitable area for mosquitoes is terrible because they are extremely annoying.

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc @AereOrg

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Adjusting energy assistance programs to cover heat-protective spending as well as cold-protective spending is a no-brainer adaptation strategy

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management@jeem-econ.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'The effect of extreme temperatures on evictions' by Dylan Brewer, Sarah Goldgar. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To all economics PhD applicants, we would like to draw your attention to the PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The PhD is for economists and scientists interested in issues related to the environment, climate change, energy, development, poverty, health, transport, inequality..

120 CEA alumni urge congressional action to support the Current Population Survey. Grateful to Bernanke, Boskin, Furman, Heckman, Hubbard, Stiglitz & so many others for speaking up. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2024...

The Center for Business and Public Policy at the Gies College of Business is hiring a post-doc in environmental/health economics. Come work with me and David Molitor! Apply by Jan 15 for full consideration. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Well, hydrogen friends waiting for the 45V guidance, I have some very bad news for you. California is proposing to extend its biogas / RNG loopholes for hydrogen production through 2045. See pp. 29-31 of the staff ISOR, available as part of the LCFS proposal that dropped yesterday.

Briefing Book is an awesome new econ policy newsletter by former White House CEA staffers. I'm grateful they let me write a post about how the Circular A-4 update will improve analysis of climate regs, www.briefingbook.info/p/the-new-ci...

Taylor Swift as Figure 29.14 (salmon)

Hiring committees, take note!

David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 3y ago

Today's job market post by @floriangrosset.bsky.social conducts two experiments in Cote d'Ivoire to show how job take-up and retention is much higher when workers get offered a job with a friend with whom they can commute to work together blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...