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▲ mempko 3 hours ago

This man has done significant damage to the climate movement. His economic analysis is awful yet very influential because policy makers read it and thought "you know what, it's ok, not so bad, lets keep going".

It's immeasurable how much damage his "research" has caused.

▲barney54 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The “damage” is that he showed with reasonable assumptions that climate change might not be as damaging as some claim? And the research was good enough to win the Nobel prize? That’s why it is damaging?

▲blahblaher 5 minutes ago | parent [-]

yes because it's absolutely ridiculous, but because he's a well-known economist everyone listened to him and now we're in dire straits.

▲parasubvert 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nordhaus co-wrote the standard economics textbook taught globally, endogenous technological change is an exemplary growth theory that (with Paul Romer) was deserving of the Nobel, and was an early proponent of carbon taxes and created many of the tools used in environmental economics.

I mean, he's absolutely deserving of critique, even harsh critique, but you're going to have try harder than "his analysis is awful" and he caused "immeasurable damage" when he co-created the movement.