Category Archives: economics

Plausible scenarios

Posted on January 16, 2023 by ...and Then There's Physics

New Scientist has a recent article about [t]he worst-case climate scenarios are no longer plausible today. This is a topic that has been covered here before, and is partly motivated by a paper discussed in this post. The basic premise … Continue reading →

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Limits to Growth?

Posted on July 23, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

Tom Murphy, who is a physics professor at UC San Diego, runs a blog called Do the Math. Just over 10 years ago, he had a popular blog post asking can economic growth can last?, which I discussed in one … Continue reading →

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Ignoring the Economists?

Posted on March 6, 2022 by ...and Then There's Physics

Andrew Dessler had an article in Rolling Stone suggesting that [t]he first step to saving the planet is ignoring the economists. Stoat has already written about it and, as you might imagine, doesn’t seem to like it. Even if suggesting … Continue reading →

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Deferential?

Posted on February 3, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was listening to a podcast interview with Steve Keen, whose work I’ve written about before. It was about his paper the appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change. I have a lot of sympathy with what he’s presenting. Some … Continue reading →

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The Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change

Posted on June 28, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

I thought I would advertise a post by Steve Keen, that may be of interest to some of my regular readers. It’s about Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change and is extremely criticial of the assumptions used to drive Integrated Assessment … Continue reading →

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A physicist for president?

Posted on March 19, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

Jim Al’Khalili has an article in Scientific American called [a] physicist for president? Jim is a physicist, so he’s probably being somewhat provactive. Also, he’s mostly arguing for someone who applies the scientific method to thinking and decision-making and is … Continue reading →

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Estimates of the economic impact of climate change

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

I realise Stoat has already covered this, but I thought I would also briefly discuss it here. I posted a couple of tweets, that got quite a lot of responses, about the economic impacts of climate change, that tried to … Continue reading →

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Societal tipping points

Posted on October 24, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

Noami Oreskes and Nicholas Stern have a New York Times Opinion piece called Climate Change will cost us even more than we think. Some are very critical, others are a little more circumspect. I, on the other hand, think that … Continue reading →

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The GRRRRROWTH Institute

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Willard

Posit an opiniator O* from the Super Wonderful Punditry think tank SWP. Deadlines displease him. The international community failed to meet so many since 1995 that such call becomes self-defeating, or so O* worries. To interpret IPCC deliverables, time for … Continue reading →

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IAMs – Open Thread

Posted on September 21, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s been an interesting debate about IAMs. IAMs are Integrated Assessment Models that are used to develop mitigation pathways. In this article, Kevin Anderson argues that IAMs are simply the wrong tools for the job, while Jessica Jewel clarifies the … Continue reading →

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