jeffreysun.bsky.social
Climate Economist at the University of Toronto. Views are neither the University's nor even my own, but a product of historical forces beyond my comprehension.
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"Because I say so."
"Are you enforcing a law? It's my right to use a public street."
"You can do what I say you can do."
"I don't think that's how it works."
"If you want to keep talking to me, you have to put your hands above your head"
I walked away. Glad to be getting out of this country...
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Source, 2023 Charlie Kirk interview: www.truthnetwork.com/show/the-cha...
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I'm sorry, this account has done some great work and I'm very glad for it, but you're really squandering your credibility here.
Anyone can see you could just:
- post the numbers as comments in a single thread
- make a separate numbers account
You really risk cultivating an echo chamber audience
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Yes! Also that objectivity looks biased as long as there is someone who disagrees with you.
We've seen objective statements framed as opinions again and again: "vaccines work", "dinosaurs once existed", "smoking causes lung cancer," "CO2 emissions cause warming", etc., etc.
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This is very disappointing to see. I have some research funds to spare -- if anyone lacks travel funding for the IPCC, please contact me and I will try to help out.
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I've been saying this but not sure how to get people to listen: the state ceases to exist when it can no longer process payments
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Like, I understand that there is a lot going on right now, but that would potentially be a thousand times bigger than anything else going on
Total governmental collapse, engineered so Peter Thiel and his buddies can effectively become warlords
But the idea is like 15% too nerdy to break through...
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Also, we simply cannot predict out to 2100. Even with many strong assumptions, proper error bounds are so big the prediction is basically "it could impact GDP a tiny bit or a huge amount, we really don't know."
E.g. AR6 estimates of 2100 warming have bounds like 0.5C-5C or something crazy like that
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I'm a climate economist: GDP only captures one piece of the impacts.
Such a model should not be interpreted as saying, "CC slightly impacts productive capacity and nothing else."
Like, "Model finds CC only reduces flamingo populations 5%" doesn't mean no other impacts
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I found a reference to this in a paper by Richard Bellman but that paper just cites itself
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There is also the Italian trend of adding weapons to animals
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That's over three times as many as 9/11
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So casual inference
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GIVE IT UP FOR ONE POINT SIX BILLION POUND POTHOLE ULTIMATUM
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That's not a flag, that's a diagram
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> Walkable street
> Low wealth and income inequality
> Abundant low-skill, middle-income jobs
> Local businesses keeping money in local economies
> Lower GDP growth than 2021
Must be the GDP growth
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Huh, I thought Columbia would be hosting the Chamberlain Seminar
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I completely agree but I still haven't forgiven you for talking trash about my mini-fridge
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In general, Chinese verbs are unable to imply that the action had a certain result. There's no word for "to break." You have to say, "我把它打坏了," meaning "I hit it such that it is broken as a result"
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Like, "下雨了" means "it has begun to rain." And "我杀了又杀他，但他杀不死！" means "I keep killing him, but he cannot-be-made-dead-as-a-result-of-killing!"
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I would say the weird tense markers in Chinese are 了, 过, 着, etc. They mark indicate something about time/completedness/ongoingness, but not quite the same way you're accustomed to
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And both fixes are inserting missing $
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This is pretty much how I think of my job as an economist
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I know he is no longer officially involved -- I just think it's a bit much to call the platform "billionaire-proof" when the billionaire founder was still on the board this time last year.
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I am deeply grateful and proud of my colleagues and of this institution for recognizing the importance of this issue and acting to substantively support climate research.
And I am profoundly happy to say that this critical field of scholarship is alive and well (and growing!) here in Canada.
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We have enough funding to make this the largest climate economics conference in NA (30-50 speakers).
Presenting in the inaugural meeting is by invitation only, but attendance is free and open to scholars across fields. If you wish to attend, please submit the form on our website: tmec.ca.