One guiding principle in my research is to work on things that can directly affect policy outcomes. Communicating outside of academia is a constant, worthwhile, and challenging effort that I view as being as important as academic publications. When I am fortunate enough to get the opportunity, I make every effort to share my own and other’s research with audiences that may not enjoy a 90 minute economics seminar. This is an incomplete list of those engagements.
Op-eds (click to expand)
- Nature: Early Career Researcher spotlight (May, 2019, not really an Op-ed, but an interview)
- Forbes: Will Global Warming Shrink U.S. GDP 10%? It’s Complicated (Dec, 2018)
- Forbes: How We Recover From The Recent Hurricanes Could Impact The National Economy For Decades (Sep, 2017)
- Forbes: The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (Feb, 2017)
- Forbes: The World Hits A Global Warming Milestone This Month. Going Back Will Be Costly (Sep, 2016)
- Forbes: Every U.S. State Could Be Hotter Than Mexico By 2100, With Deadly Consequences (Jul, 2016)
- Forbes: Cheap Coal Historically Powered Development. India Could Carve Out A New Growth Model. (May, 2016)
- Reuters: Facing the storm after the storm in Vanuatu (Mar, 2015)
Selected media coverage involving interviews (click to expand)
- The Hill: Nearly 6 million children suffering severe hunger due to shifts of El Niño: study (Oct, 2021)
- Gizmodo: Rising Temperatures Will Change Air Conditioning Use—But Not How You Might Expect (Oct, 2021)
- National Geographic Magazine (print and online): The High Price of Heat (Jul, 2021)
- Marketplace: Climate change may quickly affect the global economy, report finds (Apr, 2021)
- UChicago News: What the Biden administration means for international climate policy (Apr, 2021)
- Washington Post: The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists (Jan, 2021)
- Buzzfeed: Scientists Are Relieved About A Biden Presidency. They Say The Real Work Can Start Now. (Nov, 2020)
- The Guardian: ‘They’re suffering now’: Americans scramble to adapt to daily reality of climate crisis (Sep, 2020)
- NBC News: Summer was always a heat and health risk for UPS workers. Then came COVID-19. (Aug, 2020)
- The Guardian: Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study (Aug, 2020)
- The Hill: Climate change could cause more global deaths than all infectious diseases combined: study (Aug, 2020)
- The Weather Channel: Heat May Claim 42,000 More Lives in Odisha Each Year: Study (Nov, 2019)
- Scientific American: If Emissions Continue, India Could See 1 Million Heat Deaths a Year (Nov, 2019)
- Times of India: Annually 42,000 more people may die in Odisha by 2,100 due to excessive heat waves (Nov, 2019)
- Quartz: Climate change caused warming could kill 1.5 million Indians each year by 2100 (Nov, 2019)
- Phys.org: Researcher discusses how environment affects the way societies develop (May, 2019)
- The New Republic: The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing (May, 2019)
- National Geographic: Inequality is decreasing between countries—but climate change is slowing progress (Apr, 2019)
- Forbes: 2018 Was Earth’s Fourth-Warmest Year On Record (Feb, 2019)
- NBC News: 2018 was fourth-hottest year on record, NASA says (Feb, 2018)
- Voice of America: Trump Weighs In on Climate Change (Dec, 2018)
- The Guardian: What does climate change really cost society? This lab is trying to find out (Oct, 2018)
- Orb media: UNDER WATER How rising waters cost us all (Oct, 2018)
- Carbon Brief: Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits’ (Mar, 2018)
- Rolling Stone: Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration (Feb, 2018)
- The Atlantic: For Some Poor Countries, Climate Science Comes Too Late (Oct, 2015)
- The Guardian: ‘We’re moving to higher ground’: America’s era of climate mass migration is here (Sep, 2018)
- The Guardian: Climate change activists defy Trump’s inaction with their own summit (Sep, 2018)
- Crain’s Chicago Business: Unyielding: How Climate Change Challenges Illinois Agriculture (Dec, 2017)
- PBS ReWire: How Climate Change Hurts Our Economy (Sep, 2017)
- National Geographic: Hidden Costs of Climate Change Running Hundreds of Billions a Year (Sep, 2017)
- Buzzfeed: These Are The Climate Myths Being Spread By A Powerful Congressman (Jul, 2017)
- Slate: Climate Change Will Also Exacerbate Wealth Inequality (Jul, 2017)
- Texas Monthly: Climate Change to Bring Rising Energy Costs (Jul, 2017)
- Buzzfeed: This Map Shows How Badly Climate Change Will Impact Each County In The US (Jun, 2017)
- Financial Times: Climate change pushes ominous clouds over southern US (Jun, 2017)
- Newsweek: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL HURT THE POOR AND HELP THE WEALTHY (Jun, 2017)
- Climate Central: 10 Years on, Climate Economists Reflect on Stern Review (Oct, 2016)
- The Atlantic: How Much Do Hurricanes Hurt the Economy? (Aug, 2014)
Selected general coverage of research (click to expand)
- Axios: Where the alarming economic damage stat in the new climate report came from (Nov, 2018)
- More can be found on the research page.
Selected public talks, TV, radio, podcasts, and engagement (click to expand)
- (TV) ABC National News: The Costly Effects of Climate Change in Chicago (2021)
- University of Chicago: Virtual Harper Lecture: The Costs of a Cleaner World, featuring Michael Greenstone and Amir Jina (2021)
- (TV) Politics Tonight, CLTV / WGN-TV: The Science and Economics of the Climate Change Debate (video) (2019)
- (Podcast) Kinda Sorta Brown: Environmental (In)justice (2019)
- (Panel) Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Computer-assisted Reporting conference: Finding and Using Climate Change Data (audio file) (2018)
- (Talk) Metcalf Institute Science Journalism annual training conference (featured speaker): The Bottom Line – Climate Change and the American Economy (youtube link) (2018)
- (Talk) Graham School at University of Chicago: The Storm after the Storm – the long run effects of natural disasters (youtube link) (2018)
- (Panel) Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Confronting the Climate Reality (video) (2017)
- (TV) Chicago Tonight, WTTW: Panel discussion of Hurricane Harvey (2017)
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