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...No, we’re saving it,’” Gernot Wagner, a Columbia University economist who serves on the city’s panel on climate change, said, recalling the civic battles that erupted over plans to fortify the east side....
...As economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman wrote in their 2015 book Climate Shock, climate change is “almost uniquely global, uniquely long term, uniquely irreversible, and uniquely uncertain”....
...One popular idea promoted by Gernot Wagner, author of a new book on geoengineering, is to reflect sunlight away from the Earth by injecting aerosols into the stratosphere....
...Ten years hence, it will be too late to avoid irreversible damage without resort to the risky geoengineering recently discussed by Gernot Wagner....
...However the excellent book, Climate Shock, which Weitzman co-authored with Gernot Wagner, is more sympathetic, pointing out that these models are built with just a fraction of the resources that go into,...
...For an approach that emphasises the case for insurance against catastrophic climate risks, try Climate Shock by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman....
...Academics who have signed the letter in a personal capacity include Lord Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, Professor Bob Eccles from the Harvard Business School and Dr Gernot Wagner of the Harvard...
...Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, a US campaign group, says that new technologies will be essential if the world is to bring greenhouse gas emissions under control....
...Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/RRP$27.95 We insure our lives against an uncertain future; so why...
...The dangerous allure of such thinking is a central theme tackled by two other economists: Gernot Wagner, an academic who works for the US Environmental Defense Fund, and Harvard professor Martin Weitzman...
...Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman examine another global crisis — that of climate change — in Climate Shock....
...According to Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund, reduced energy use, renewables and switch to gas each contributed about one-third of the reduction....
...In fact, one of the worst things about counting on “business as usual” is that we don’t know a lot about the possible outcomes beyond about 3 degrees, as Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explain in “Climate...
...Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$27.95 We insure our lives against an uncertain future; so why not...
...The most convincing case for action is the one Martin Wolf made eloquently in his column last week, drawing on the terrific new book Climate Shock by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman: combating climate...
...But Climate Shock by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, notes that new technology might also break the final link — that between emissions and climate....
...(See chart) Climate Shock, a punchy new book by Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund and Martin Weitzman of Harvard University, explains why action is both so difficult and so important....
...As the FT’s Martin Wolf notes on Wednesday, citing the book Climate Shock , by Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund and Martin Weitzman of Harvard University, at its core the climate change story...
...From Dr Gernot Wagner and Prof Martin L Weitzman. Sir, Richard Tol asserts that “Bogus prophecies of doom will not fix the climate” (Comment, 1 April)....
The goal of the union’s ETS is to make emissions scarce, say Nathaniel Keohane and Gernot Wagner
...Wagner and Prof Martin L Weitzman When professors stand divided / From Mr Ron Iles Extreme weather would be catastrophic today / From Dr Niccolo Caldararo Scientists – look to the here and now / From...
...Gernot Wagner, economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in the US, is confident that a cap-and-trade system will be passed: “It’s far from inevitable, but all the signs point in the right direction,”...
...Laurent Alvaro’s Morald shouts and Laurent Naouri (Gernot) fails to mask his now threadbare baritone with spirited comic acting....
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