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Judson - 2017 - The energy expansions of evolution The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five ‘energetic’ epochs, each...

We have a new paper out in Science: Social and Economic Impacts of Climate   For centuries, thinkers have considered whether and how cl...

I have a  new working paper  out reviewing various methods, models, and assumptions used in the econometrics literature to quantify the impa...

Kyle Meng  and I published an  op-ed in the Guardian today  trying to raise awareness of the potential socioeconomic impacts, and policy res...

Halvard Buhaug and numerous coauthors have released a comment titled “ One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict ” whi...

[This is a gues blog post by my coauthor Kyle Meng .] Sol and I just published an article in PNAS in which we reexamine a controversy in ...

Kyle and I have a paper out in the Early Edition of PNAS this week: Reconciling disagreement over climate–conflict results in Africa Sol...

Finding old papers on temperature manipulation is turning into a hobby of mine. I actually had to go to the library to dig up this gem. Fro...

Marshall, Ted and I have a new short working paper out. When we correct the coding of a single variable in a previous study (that uses a new...

Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space, Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT Last spring Sol and I finished up the working paper version of our paper...

The "sister paper" to our recent Science article on climate and conflict has come out in Climatic Change. This new article is a t...

Edward Miguel, Marshall Burke and I have a new paper quantifying the link between climate and conflict . There has already been a lot of p...

In this week's Nature : We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is pivotal to the functio...

Now posted as an NBER working paper (it should be out in REEP this summer): Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analy...

Last week, Andrew Solow published a Nature comment  titled "A call for peace on climate and conflict." In the article, Solow raise...

Last week I put a link to the recent Marcott et al. Science paper reconstructing Holocene temperatures in the weekend links . I've ...

There are many groups trying to use gridded subnational data to understand how climatic shocks generate social conflict and to verify larger...

"Recommendations" on Google scholar is getting very good. Here's a new working paper out that it flagged for me, and it hit...

A recent NCC and a recent GRL article both use simulations to look at how large scale irrigation and energy consumption might alter large s...

From yesterday's Guardian : "Australia had its hottest day on record on Monday with a nationwide average of 40.33C (104.59 F), n...