One guiding principle in my research is to work on things that can directly affect  policy outcomes. Communicating outside of academia is a constant, worthwhile, and challenging effort that I view as being as important as academic publications. When I am fortunate enough to get the opportunity, I make every effort to share my own and other’s research with audiences that may not enjoy a 90 minute economics seminar.  This is an  incomplete list of those engagements.

Op-eds 

• Nature: Early Career Researcher spotlight (May, 2019, not really an Op-ed, but an interview)
• Forbes: Will Global Warming Shrink U.S. GDP 10%? It’s Complicated (Dec, 2018)
• Forbes: How We Recover From The Recent Hurricanes Could Impact The National Economy For Decades (Sep, 2017)
• Forbes: The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (Feb, 2017)
• Forbes: The World Hits A Global Warming Milestone This Month. Going Back Will Be Costly (Sep, 2016)
• Forbes: Every U.S. State Could Be Hotter Than Mexico By 2100, With Deadly Consequences (Jul, 2016)
• Forbes: Cheap Coal Historically Powered Development. India Could Carve Out A New Growth Model. (May, 2016)
• Reuters: Facing the storm after the storm in Vanuatu (Mar, 2015)

Selected media coverage involving interviews

• The Hill: Nearly 6 million children suffering severe hunger due to shifts of El Niño: study (Oct, 2021)
• Gizmodo: Rising Temperatures Will Change Air Conditioning Use—But Not How You Might Expect (Oct, 2021)
• National Geographic Magazine (print and online): The High Price of Heat (Jul, 2021)
• Marketplace: Climate change may quickly affect the global economy, report finds (Apr, 2021)
• UChicago News: What the Biden administration means for international climate policy (Apr, 2021)
• Washington Post: The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists (Jan, 2021)
• Buzzfeed: Scientists Are Relieved About A Biden Presidency. They Say The Real Work Can Start Now. (Nov, 2020)
• The Guardian: ‘They’re suffering now’: Americans scramble to adapt to daily reality of climate crisis (Sep, 2020)
• NBC News: Summer was always a heat and health risk for UPS workers. Then came COVID-19. (Aug, 2020)
• The Guardian: Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study (Aug, 2020)
• The Hill: Climate change could cause more global deaths than all infectious diseases combined: study (Aug, 2020)
• The Weather Channel: Heat May Claim 42,000 More Lives in Odisha Each Year: Study (Nov, 2019)
• Scientific American: If Emissions Continue, India Could See 1 Million Heat Deaths a Year (Nov, 2019)
• Times of India: Annually 42,000 more people may die in Odisha by 2,100 due to excessive heat waves (Nov, 2019)
• Quartz: Climate change caused warming could kill 1.5 million Indians each year by 2100 (Nov, 2019)
• Phys.org: Researcher discusses how environment affects the way societies develop (May, 2019)
• The New Republic: The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing (May, 2019)
• National Geographic: Inequality is decreasing between countries—but climate change is slowing progress (Apr, 2019)

• Forbes: 2018 Was Earth’s Fourth-Warmest Year On Record (Feb, 2019)
• NBC News: 2018 was fourth-hottest year on record, NASA says (Feb, 2018)
• Voice of America: Trump Weighs In on Climate Change (Dec, 2018)
• The Guardian: What does climate change really cost society? This lab is trying to find out (Oct, 2018)
• Orb media: UNDER WATER How rising waters cost us all (Oct, 2018)
• Carbon Brief: Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits’ (Mar, 2018)
• Rolling Stone: Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration (Feb, 2018)
• The Atlantic: For Some Poor Countries, Climate Science Comes Too Late (Oct, 2015)
• The Guardian: ‘We’re moving to higher ground’: America’s era of climate mass migration is here (Sep, 2018)
• The Guardian: Climate change activists defy Trump’s inaction with their own summit (Sep, 2018)
• Crain’s Chicago Business: Unyielding: How Climate Change Challenges Illinois Agriculture (Dec, 2017)
• PBS ReWire: How Climate Change Hurts Our Economy (Sep, 2017)
• National Geographic: Hidden Costs of Climate Change Running Hundreds of Billions a Year (Sep, 2017)
• Buzzfeed: These Are The Climate Myths Being Spread By A Powerful Congressman (Jul, 2017)
• Slate: Climate Change Will Also Exacerbate Wealth Inequality (Jul, 2017)
• Texas Monthly: Climate Change to Bring Rising Energy Costs (Jul, 2017)
• Buzzfeed: This Map Shows How Badly Climate Change Will Impact Each County In The US (Jun, 2017)
• Financial Times: Climate change pushes ominous clouds over southern US (Jun, 2017)
• Newsweek: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL HURT THE POOR AND HELP THE WEALTHY (Jun, 2017)
• Climate Central: 10 Years on, Climate Economists Reflect on Stern Review (Oct, 2016)
• The Atlantic: How Much Do Hurricanes Hurt the Economy? (Aug, 2014)

Selected general coverage of research

• Axios: Where the alarming economic damage stat in the new climate report came from (Nov, 2018)
• More can be found on the research page.

Selected public talks, TV, radio, podcasts, and engagement

• (TV) ABC National News: The Costly Effects of Climate Change in Chicago (2021)
• University of Chicago: Virtual Harper Lecture: The Costs of a Cleaner World, featuring Michael Greenstone and Amir Jina (2021)
• (TV) Politics Tonight, CLTV / WGN-TV: The Science and Economics of the Climate Change Debate (video) (2019)
• (Podcast) Kinda Sorta Brown: Environmental (In)justice (2019)
• (Panel) Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Computer-assisted Reporting conference: Finding and Using Climate Change Data (audio file) (2018)
• (Talk) Metcalf Institute Science Journalism annual training conference (featured speaker): The Bottom Line – Climate Change and the American Economy (youtube link) (2018)
• (Talk) Graham School at University of Chicago: The Storm after the Storm – the long run effects of natural disasters (youtube link) (2018)
• (Panel) Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Confronting the Climate Reality (video) (2017)
• (TV) Chicago Tonight, WTTW: Panel discussion of Hurricane Harvey (2017)[/bg_collapse]