Nordhaus has written on the economics of climate change. He is the developer of the DICE and RICE models, integrated assessment models of the interplay between economics, energy use, and climate change.
A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies ISBN 978-0-300-13748-4 was published by Yale University Press on June 24, 2008.
In Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change (1993), he states: "Mankind is playing dice with the natural environment through a multitude of interventions – injecting into the atmosphere trace gases like the greenhouse gases or ozone-depleting chemicals, engineering massive land-use changes such as deforestation, depleting multitudes of species in their natural habitats even while creating transgenic ones in the laboratory, and accumulating sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy human civilizations."[4] Under the climate change models he has developed, in general those sectors of the economy that depend heavily on unmanaged ecosystems – that is, are heavily dependent upon naturally occurring rainfall, runoff, or temperatures – will be most sensitive to climate change. Agriculture, forestry, outdoor recreation, and coastal activities fall in this category."[5] Nordhaus takes seriously the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change.[6]
Nordhaus, who has done several studies on the economics of global warming, criticized the Stern Review for its use of a low discount rate:[7]
The Review’s unambiguous conclusions about the need for extreme immediate action will not survive the substitution of discounting assumptions that are consistent with today’s market place. So the central questions about global-warming policy – how much, how fast, and how costly – remain open. The Review informs but does not answer these fundamental questions.
Nordhaus has written on the economics of climate change. He is the developer of the DICE and RICE models, integrated assessment models of the interplay between economics, energy use, and climate change.A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies ISBN 978-0-300-13748-4 was published by Yale University Press on June 24, 2008.In Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change (1993), he states: "Mankind is playing dice with the natural environment through a multitude of interventions – injecting into the atmosphere trace gases like the greenhouse gases or ozone-depleting chemicals, engineering massive land-use changes such as deforestation, depleting multitudes of species in their natural habitats even while creating transgenic ones in the laboratory, and accumulating sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy human civilizations."[4] Under the climate change models he has developed, in general those sectors of the economy that depend heavily on unmanaged ecosystems – that is, are heavily dependent upon naturally occurring rainfall, runoff, or temperatures – will be most sensitive to climate change. Agriculture, forestry, outdoor recreation, and coastal activities fall in this category."[5] Nordhaus takes seriously the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change.[6]Nordhaus, who has done several studies on the economics of global warming, criticized the Stern Review for its use of a low discount rate:[7]การทบทวนบทสรุปชัดเจนเกี่ยวกับความต้องการดำเนินการในทันทีมากจะอยู่รอดการแทนที่ของสมมติฐานที่สอดคล้องกับวันนี้ตลาดเปิด ดังนั้น เซ็นทรัลคำถามเกี่ยวกับนโยบายโลกร้อน – จำนวน วิธีการได้อย่างรวดเร็ว และการเสียค่าใช้ จ่าย – เปิด การตรวจสอบจะแจ้งให้ทราบ แต่ไม่ตอบคำถามพื้นฐานเหล่านี้
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