Book Blog
Excerpts from the book ‘CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO’ covering the science, technology, economics, and politics of climate change.
by Mathew Hampshire-Waugh
The Rate of Learning and the Cost of Net-Zero
Why integrated assessment models underestimate the power of the experience curve and overestimate the cost of reaching net -zero. And how wind, solar, and batteries will help deliver a cheaper energy system.
Limits to Growth?
A short history of Doomsters and Boomsters featuring Dr Strangelove, twenty billion chickens, and Playboy magazine. At the heart of this story is a wager over the future of our planet. A bet between a celebrity biologist and a subversive economist with diametrically opposed visions of the future.
Climate Damages and Discount Rates
The legacy of a severed head and the fight between a Lord and Nobel Laureate. How much should we care about future climate change damages?