Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is making man-made climate change a cornerstone of his 2020 presidential candidacy. For many Democrats, it is an issue near to their heart. According to a Pew Research Center poll taken last year, 75% of Democrats say human activity is causing climate change. All the major […] Read more »
With Climate Science on the March, an Isolated Trump Hunkers Down
New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other. … Republican pollsters […] Read more »
Extreme Weather Can Feel ‘Normal’ After Just a Few Years, Study Finds
While unusual weather patterns have always come and gone, in a changing climate extreme weather events will become more frequent. And this year has already had its fair share of extremes. But if extreme temperatures arrived in your area, would you even notice? Often, the answer is no, according to […] Read more »
Market Expectations About Climate Change
An emerging literature examines how agents update their beliefs about climate change. Most studies have relied on indirect belief measures or opinion polls. We analyze a direct measure: prices of financial products whose payouts are tied to future weather outcomes. … When money is at stake, agents are accurately anticipating […] Read more »
Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers
In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite. That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy […] Read more »
Time to Panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
… We are all living in delusion, unable to really process the news from science that climate change amounts to an all-encompassing threat. Indeed, a threat the size of life itself. How can we be this deluded? One answer comes from behavioral economics. The scroll of cognitive biases identified by […] Read more »