Have y’all seen the Partha Dasgutha video from the @nytimes yet?
Here is the link and story: Partha Dasgupta is a Cambridge University economist who in 2021 prepared a more than 600-page report for the British government about the financial value of nature. Not your average bedtime reading. But believe us when we say
Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: “Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners” workshop
From the inbox: Location: Via ZoomPlease note: All workshops will be recorded. Registrants will have access to the recordings. Dates and Times: April 28, 2023 - Online9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ET 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET This short course provides an introduction for “beginners”
Bad Graph Interpretation of the Day: Well, if I had to guess, I would say bad math happened.
Saw this tweet this morning with 2.3M views: Just eyeballing it, from 1995-2000, boy suicide rates fell from about 11 to about 6 per 100K, a 45% decline. Girl suicide rates fell from about 4 to about 2 per 100K, a 50%
Adaptation to climate change at Northwestern North Carolina ski resorts
From the local paper (Changing climates means changing ski season): Snowfall in the High Country is around 25 percent less than the long-term average, according to data from local meteorologist Ray Russell of Ray’s Weather Center. However, local ski resorts only
If the WIllow Project is approved and fewer people know about it, are the environmental costs reduced?
One of the big problems of nonmarket valuation of projects that impact the environment is that the benefits and costs from the project depend on how many people know about it. US government officials are expected to make a decision on
Some bad economics at the Department of Energy
From E&E News (DOE: Major LNG project ‘would not increase’ CO2) from June 2022: A proposed liquefied natural gas project in Alaska would not raise greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new federal environmental review that assumes LNG exports elsewhere will
Running the LA marathon is exhausting…
...I know because I watched my second oldest daughter run it on Sunday and she looked really tired at the end (Picture is at the start line at Dodger Stadium the day before the race).
Last week I began a research project for @FoothillsOfNC
On the Monday of spring break I drove to Morganton, NC and visited Oak Hill Community Park and Forest: Located 10 minutes from downtown Morganton, the park will be a hub for outdoor recreation, education, agriculture and archaeological exploration for Morganton
Today’s example of how the critics of environmental regulations ignore the benefits: Clean Neighbor Rule
From the NYTimes (E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks): The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a rule forcing factories and power plants in 23 Western and Midwestern states to sharply cut smog-causing pollution that is released from
Our article in the Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy’s “sizing up survey samples” symposium (?) is published online
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012). We used the Knowledge Networks (KN) internet panel for the sample (besides me, the authors are Andrew Ropicki, John Loomis,