Economics

Number of papers: 3

Energy and Climate Policy — An Evaluation of Global Climate Change Expenditure 2011–2018 — Energies, 2020; ÓhAiseadha, Quinn, Connolly, and Soon

This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of wind and solar. The costs are staggering. The benefits are unclear at best.

Climate sensitivity, agricultural productivity and the social cost of carbon in FUND — Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2020; Dayaratna, McKitrick, and Michaels

The authors find that previous models of the cost/benefit of carbon dioxide failed to take the benefits into account and overestimated the harms. Their analysis shows far less harm than the influential FUND model, which is used to write “climate policy” around the world. They published another paper in which they perform a similar study for the other economic models.

Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards — Global Environmental Change, 2019; Formetta & Feyen

“Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human and economic vulnerability, with global average mortality and economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively, from 1980–1989 to 2007–2016. We further show a clear negative relation between vulnerability and wealth, which is strongest at the lowest income levels.”