“Richer populations can protect themselves from the impacts of warming but the global poor don’t have this luxury,” said Solomon Hsiang, co-director of the Climate Impact Lab. He added that access to air conditioning and electric fans would still remain…

Maps from the Climate Impact Lab, a data-driven research group, show projected average temperatures in the summer months both in the near term (2020-2039) and in the not-so-distant future (2080-2099) under a scenario of high global greenhouse gas emissions. It’s…

Carbon emissions are causing harm, especially to future generations, but for decades cheap gas has meant ‘no one is paying for that harm,’ said Sol Hsiang, co-director of the Climate Impact Lab

Michael Greenstone, Director of Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, the Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Obama administration, and co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, described the social cost of carbon as “the…

A new “Lives Saved Calculator” was just released by a collaboration of experts called the Climate Impact Lab. They calculate a total of 7.4 million lives saved over this century if the U.S. cuts emissions to net-zero.