Raising the Heat: How Warming Can Reduce Lifespans & Slow Economic Growth
David Keith & Ed Whittingham chat with University of Chicago's Michael Greenstone.
Their wide-ranging discussion includes: the relationships between temperature change and mortality; the cost and impact temperature has on public health; where these impacts are likely to be highest; and the role of public policy in bringing down these risks.
Show Notes:
(01:39) Dr. Michael Greenstone
(02:02) Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
(02:52) Engineering the Planet
(03:25) The future of the Temperature–Mortality Relationship
(04:48) Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
(07:36) Climate Damages and Adaptation Potential Across Diverse Sectors of the United States
(09:35) Heat Exposure and Poverty Can Be a Lethal Combination
(11:30) Seasonality of Mortality Under Climate Change: A Multicountry Projection Study
(13:59) Evaluating the 35°C Wet-Bulb Temperature Adaptability Threshold for Young, Healthy Subjects
(15:30) Relationship Between Season of Birth, Temperature Exposure, and Later Life Wellbeing
(17:35) Heat and Learning
(20:14) Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
(21:35) The Effect of Temporal Data Aggregation to Assess the Impact of Changing Temperatures in Europe: An Epidemiological Modelling Study
(22:06) New Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy
(25:10) Introducing the Air Quality Life Index
(26:52) The Clean Air Act of 1970 and Adult Mortality
(26:58) United States: Clean Air Act (1970)
(28:34) China’s War on Pollution: Evidence from The First Five Years
(32:45) For Breathable Air: Environmental Data Transparency and Star Rating Systems Will Improve Air Quality
(34:31) Social Cost of Carbon
(40:48) The Social Cost of Carbon Is Now US$225 Per Tonne – What This Means for Asia
(42:07) Rising Temperatures, Melting Incomes: Country-Specific Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Scenarios
(42:11) The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global Vs. Local Temperature
(48:00) The Ministry for the Future
About Our Guest:
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He also serves as co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-disciplinary collaboration of researchers working to quantify the long-term impacts of climate change. Dr. Greenstone's research focuses on estimating the costs and benefits of societies’ energy and environmental choices.
About Your EvC Co-Hosts:
David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.
Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.
Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.
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