Stories by Gary Yohe

Gary Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He served as convening lead author for multiple chapters and the Synthesis Report for the IPCC from 1990 through 2014 and was vice-chair of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment.

Climate

A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong

In Unsettled, Steven Koonin deploys that highly misleading label to falsely suggest that we don’t understand the risks well enough to take action

May 13, 2021 — Gary Yohe | Opinion

Policy & Ethics

Biden Channels FDR on STEM Policy

The president’s letter to his new science adviser emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a similar missive in 1944

February 18, 2021 — Henry Jacoby, Gary Yohe, Ben Santer and Richard Richels | Opinion

Policy & Ethics

Counterfactual Experiments Are Crucial but Easy to Misunderstand

With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy

July 10, 2020 — Gary Yohe, Ben Santer, Henry Jacoby and Richard Richels | Opinion