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Global warming: Improve economic models of climate change

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Costs of carbon emissions are being underestimated, but current estimates are still valuable for setting mitigation policy, say Richard L. Revesz and colleagues.

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  1. Richard L. Revesz is at the New York University School of Law, New York, USA.,

    Richard L. Revesz

  2. Peter H. Howard is at the New York University School of Law, New York, USA.,

    Peter H. Howard

  3. Kenneth Arrow is in the Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

    Kenneth Arrow

  4. Lawrence H. Goulder is in the Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

    Lawrence H. Goulder

  5. Robert E. Kopp is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Rutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.,

    Robert E. Kopp

  6. Michael A. Livermore is at the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.,

    Michael A. Livermore

  7. Michael Oppenheimer is at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.,

    Michael Oppenheimer

  8. Thomas Sterner is in the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,

    Thomas Sterner

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