Richard Tol

I'm on screen for a few seconds in a documentary film that will be shown in movie theatres across the US on May 2nd.

Rich countries that try to meet their Paris commitments will spend huge amounts of money replacing cheap, higher-emissions energy sources with expensive, lower-emissions sources. This will harm the poor and do nothing for the climate.

New material won't be added to this blog until Autumn. You are invited to explore the six-years-worth of content already published here - as well as my two books.

A Greenpeace activist thinks the world would be a better place if we chopped off "everyone’s heads."

Credentialed, experienced critics declare that the UN's climate panel is politicized - and that many of its conclusions are mistaken.

Help annotate the new IPCC report so that it's more user friendly - and more informative about its authors and source material.

If someone was systematically writing to journals that had published your work, making false allegations against you, would you be concerned?