TRANSCRIPT Environmental Insights Episode #7, 2024 Guest: Record Date: Posting Date:

Doug Gavel

I think one of the common things I think I was one of the first to identify, at least statistically, is this crucial role of extreme heat. [...] Wolfram Schlenker: The one thing that was unique, I feel like, about Columbia… I don't think that's due to the fact that it was at the School of International Public Affairs, but just the way Columbia was, is that I felt like there was very few barriers between departments. [...] Something that people often take note of, with regards to Harvard, is that the different parts of the university, the faculty parts, and sciences, the business school, the Kennedy School, the law school, et cetera. [...] I think nowadays, if you look at the EPA's latest proposal for the revised social cost of carbon, and you look at all the sectoral impacts and mortality, energy consumption, labor productivity, agriculture, the common theme across all of them is that it's pretty much all driven by how much of the temperature distribution we push into the really upper tail where the outcomes are just very negative. [...] I assume you're referring to the article that was in the American Economic Review my Mendelsohn, Nordhaus, and Shaw, and then the various responses to it.