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Gary W. Yohe
Researcher at Wesleyan University
Publications - 173
Citations - 21893
Gary W. Yohe is an academic researcher from Wesleyan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Political economy of climate change. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 172 publications receiving 20358 citations. Previous affiliations of Gary W. Yohe include Carnegie Mellon University & University at Albany, SUNY.
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Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Reasons for Concern"
Joel B. Smith,Stephen H. Schneider,Michael Oppenheimer,Gary W. Yohe,William Hare,Michael D. Mastrandrea,Anand Patwardhan,Ian Burton,Jan Corfee-Morlot,Christopher H. D. Magadza,Hans-Martin Füssel,A. Barrie Pittock,Atiq Rahman,Avelino Suarez,Jean-Pascal van Ypersele +14 more
TL;DR: Revisions of the sensitivities of the RFCs to increases in GMT and a more thorough understanding of the concept of vulnerability that has evolved over the past 8 years are described.
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Risk aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon
TL;DR: In this article, the Stern Review reported a social cost of carbon of over $300/tC, calling for ambitious climate policy, and they conducted a systematic sensitivity analysis of this result on two crucial parameters: the rate of pure time preference and risk aversion.
Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern: a synthesis
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The weakest link hypothesis for adaptive capacity: An empirical test
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the validity of the weakest link hypothesis through empirical means and find a relationship that is close to linear in the perfect substitute case where the various determinants of adaptive capacity can compensate for each other.