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== Geoengineering ==
== Geoengineering ==
Wagner was the founding co-director, joint with [[David Keith (scientist)|David Keith]], of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program founded in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ramachandran|first1=Akshitha|title=Harvard Researchers Launch Solar Geoengineering Moonshot|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/17/solar-geoengineering-program-launch/|accessdate=19 December 2017|work=www.thecrimson.com|publisher=The Harvard Crimson|date=17 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Meyer|first1=Robinson|title=What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—and Then Suddenly Stop?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-happens-if-we-start-geo-engineeringand-then-suddenly-stop/551354/|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=The Atlantic|date=25 January 2018}}</ref> His [[Climate engineering|geoengineering]] research focuses on economics, governance, policy, and public perception, including the [[chemtrails conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Beaumont|first1=Hilary|title=Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists|url=https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/mb99mp/chemtrails-arent-real-say-harvard-scientists-trying-to-fight-climate-change|work=VICE News|date=22 November 2017}}</ref> Together with Dustin Tingley, Wagner finds that in a U.S. public opinion survey conducted in October 2016, 30 to 40% of the U.S. public believed in a version of the conspiracy.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tingley|first1=Dustin|last2=Wagner|first2=Gernot|title=Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media|journal=Palgrave Communications|date=31 October 2017|volume=3|doi=10.1057/s41599-017-0014-3|issn=2055-1045|doi-access=free}}</ref> The paper also describes what the authors call a "community of conspiracy" in online discourse, in particular on Twitter and other anonymous social media.
Wagner was the founding co-director, joint with [[David Keith (scientist)|David Keith]], of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program founded in 2017 as an interfaculty research initiative.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ramachandran|first1=Akshitha|title=Harvard Researchers Launch Solar Geoengineering Moonshot|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/17/solar-geoengineering-program-launch/|accessdate=19 December 2017|work=www.thecrimson.com|publisher=The Harvard Crimson|date=17 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Meyer|first1=Robinson|title=What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—and Then Suddenly Stop?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-happens-if-we-start-geo-engineeringand-then-suddenly-stop/551354/|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=The Atlantic|date=25 January 2018}}</ref> His [[Climate engineering|geoengineering]] research focuses on economics, governance, policy, and public perception, including the [[chemtrails conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Beaumont|first1=Hilary|title=Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists|url=https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/mb99mp/chemtrails-arent-real-say-harvard-scientists-trying-to-fight-climate-change|work=VICE News|date=22 November 2017}}</ref> Together with Dustin Tingley, Wagner finds that in a U.S. public opinion survey conducted in October 2016, 30 to 40% of the U.S. public believed in a version of the conspiracy.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tingley|first1=Dustin|last2=Wagner|first2=Gernot|title=Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media|journal=Palgrave Communications|date=31 October 2017|volume=3|doi=10.1057/s41599-017-0014-3|issn=2055-1045|doi-access=free}}</ref> The paper also describes what the authors call a "community of conspiracy" in online discourse, in particular on Twitter and other anonymous social media.


On November 23, 2018, Wagner published an open-access article on "Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment."<ref name=smith18>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Wake |last2=Wagner |first2=Gernot |title=Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment |journal=Environmental Research Letters |date=2018 |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=124001 |doi=10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d |language=en |issn=1748-9326|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Carrington |first1=Damian |title=Solar geoengineering could be 'remarkably inexpensive' – report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/solar-geoengineering-could-be-remarkably-inexpensive-report?CMP=share_btn_tw |work=the Guardian |date=23 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The article was noticed by [[CNN]], where the journalist said: "Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere."<ref name=mrcnn>{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Matthew |title=Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming? |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aerosols-global-warming-intl-scli/index.html |work=CNN |date=23 November 2018}}</ref> The proposal "estimated the development costs of a [[stratospheric]] fleet of [[sulfur]]-releasing aircraft at $3.5 billion. This theoretical program would start in 2033 with two aircraft and 4,000 annual flights, increasing over 15 years to nearly 100 aircraft flying hundreds of flights a week," and would cost annually to operate "roughly $2.25 billion".<ref name="fiddle">{{cite news |last1=Montlake |first1=Simon |title=Should we fiddle with Earth's thermostat? This man might know how. |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0123/Should-we-fiddle-with-Earth-s-thermostat-This-man-might-know-how |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |date=23 January 2020}}</ref>
On November 23, 2018, Wagner published an open-access article on "Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment."<ref name=smith18>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Wake |last2=Wagner |first2=Gernot |title=Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment |journal=Environmental Research Letters |date=2018 |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=124001 |doi=10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d |language=en |issn=1748-9326|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Carrington |first1=Damian |title=Solar geoengineering could be 'remarkably inexpensive' – report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/solar-geoengineering-could-be-remarkably-inexpensive-report?CMP=share_btn_tw |work=the Guardian |date=23 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The article was noticed by [[CNN]], where the journalist said: "Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere."<ref name=mrcnn>{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Matthew |title=Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming? |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aerosols-global-warming-intl-scli/index.html |work=CNN |date=23 November 2018}}</ref> The proposal "estimated the development costs of a [[stratospheric]] fleet of [[sulfur]]-releasing aircraft at $3.5 billion. This theoretical program would start in 2033 with two aircraft and 4,000 annual flights, increasing over 15 years to nearly 100 aircraft flying hundreds of flights a week," and would cost annually to operate "roughly $2.25 billion".<ref name="fiddle">{{cite news |last1=Montlake |first1=Simon |title=Should we fiddle with Earth's thermostat? This man might know how. |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0123/Should-we-fiddle-with-Earth-s-thermostat-This-man-might-know-how |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |date=23 January 2020}}</ref>

Revision as of 19:25, 2 July 2021

Gernot Wagner
Born1980
Austria
NationalityAustrian & American
SpouseDr. Siripanth Nippita (m. 2002)[1]
Academic career
Fieldclimate economics
InstitutionNew York University
School or
tradition		environmental economics
Alma materHarvard University
Stanford University
Doctoral
advisor		Robert N. Stavins
InfluencesNat Keohane
Martin Weitzman
Richard Zeckhauser
AwardsTop 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Gernot Wagner (1980 in Austria) is a climate economist, academic, and author.[2][3] He holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, as well as an MA in economics from Stanford University. He teaches at New York University,[4] writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg News, and is the co-author, with Martin L. Weitzman, of Climate Shock,[5] a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015.[6]

Climate and energy policy

Wagner was an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund from 2008 to 2014 and lead senior economist from 2014 to 2016.[5][7] While there he was a member of the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and he wrote Climate Shock (2015), a book emphasizing the importance of risk and uncertainty for prompting action on climate change.[8][9][10] Wagner was a member of the six-person lead author team, including Suzi Kerr, that wrote the World Bank's Emissions Trading in Practice : A Handbook on Design and Implementation.[11]

"Risk" and "uncertainty" in climate change are often mentioned as reasons to delay action. Wagner's Climate Shock, joint with Martin Weitzman, emphasizes that the "known unknowns" and potential "unknown unknowns" instead increase the need for action.[5] This contrasts with work done, for example, by economists Bill Nordhaus, Richard Tol, and others. Nordhaus, in turn, favorably reviewed Wagner and Weitzman's book in the New York Review of Books.[12] Wagner's latest academic work on this topic, joint with Kent Daniel of Columbia University and Bob Litterman of Kepos Capital further emphasizes the importance of pricing climate risk and uncertainty.[13]

Geoengineering

Wagner was the founding co-director, joint with David Keith, of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program founded in 2017 as an interfaculty research initiative.[14][15] His geoengineering research focuses on economics, governance, policy, and public perception, including the chemtrails conspiracy theory.[16] Together with Dustin Tingley, Wagner finds that in a U.S. public opinion survey conducted in October 2016, 30 to 40% of the U.S. public believed in a version of the conspiracy.[17] The paper also describes what the authors call a "community of conspiracy" in online discourse, in particular on Twitter and other anonymous social media.

On November 23, 2018, Wagner published an open-access article on "Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment."[18][19] The article was noticed by CNN, where the journalist said: "Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere."[20] The proposal "estimated the development costs of a stratospheric fleet of sulfur-releasing aircraft at $3.5 billion. This theoretical program would start in 2033 with two aircraft and 4,000 annual flights, increasing over 15 years to nearly 100 aircraft flying hundreds of flights a week," and would cost annually to operate "roughly $2.25 billion".[21]

Books

Gernot Wagner has written three books:

  • 2003: Der Rest der Welt. Ein Reiseführer für überzeugte Daheimbleiber, Wien, Ueberreuter-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3957-5
  • 2011: But Will The Planet Notice?. New York, Hill & Wang/Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-8090-5207-5
  • 2015: Climate Shock, joint with Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-15947-8 (Financial Times-McKinsey Top 15 Business Book of the Year 2015. Translated into several languages, including German, which has been awarded Austria's Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres [German, 'Natural Science Book of the Year'] 2017.)
  • 2021: Stadt, Land, Klima: Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten, Brandstätter 2021, ISBN 978-3-7106-0508-6.

Family

Wagner is married to Siripanth Nippita, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Medical Center and the chief of the family planning division as well as the director of Reproductive Choice at Bellevue Hospital.[1][22][23]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Steinhardt, Jenifer (5 June 2002). "Love Stories: International Affairs". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ^ [1] Accessed June 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Gaulhofer, Karl (28 August 2017). "Für Pessimismus ist es zu spät" (in German). No. Alpbach. Die Presse. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Gernot Wagner NYU Wagner profile". wagner.nyu.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Lieberman, Bruce (2 November 2016). "Geoengineering: crazy...with a big 'but' » Yale Climate Connections". Yale Climate Connections. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Gernot Wagner | Harvard Kennedy School". www.hks.harvard.edu.
  7. ^ Meyer, Robinson (29 June 2017). "The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Change's Costs". The Atlantic.
  8. ^ Heal, Geoffrey (2017). "The Economics of the Climate". Journal of Economic Literature. 55 (3): 1046–1063. doi:10.1257/jel.20151335. ISSN 0022-0515.
  9. ^ Chait, Jonathan. "What If Climate Scientists Are Guessing Wrong?". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  10. ^ Clark, Pilita (29 March 2015). "'Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet', by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman". Financial Times.
  11. ^ Partnership for Market Readiness; International Carbon Action Partnership (2016). Emissions Trading in Practice. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  12. ^ Nordhaus, William D. (4 June 2015). "A New Solution: The Climate Club". The New York Review of Books.
  13. ^ "The High Cost of Climate Uncertainty". Ideas & Insights. Columbia Business School. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  14. ^ Ramachandran, Akshitha (17 April 2017). "Harvard Researchers Launch Solar Geoengineering Moonshot". www.thecrimson.com. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  15. ^ Meyer, Robinson (25 January 2018). "What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—and Then Suddenly Stop?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  16. ^ Beaumont, Hilary (22 November 2017). "Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists". VICE News.
  17. ^ Tingley, Dustin; Wagner, Gernot (31 October 2017). "Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media". Palgrave Communications. 3. doi:10.1057/s41599-017-0014-3. ISSN 2055-1045.
  18. ^ Smith, Wake; Wagner, Gernot (2018). "Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment". Environmental Research Letters. 13 (12): 124001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d. ISSN 1748-9326.
  19. ^ Carrington, Damian (23 November 2018). "Solar geoengineering could be 'remarkably inexpensive' – report". the Guardian.
  20. ^ Robinson, Matthew (23 November 2018). "Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?". CNN.
  21. ^ Montlake, Simon (23 January 2020). "Should we fiddle with Earth's thermostat? This man might know how". The Christian Science Monitor.
  22. ^ Postl, Elisabeth (22 August 2017). "Kulturkampf um den Kreißsaal" (in German). No. Alpbach. Die Presse. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  23. ^ Cohen, Joyce (5 September 2019). "They Wanted a Downtown Loft With Few Walls. Which One Would You Choose?". The New York Times.
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