Richard Tol is credited as "an adviser to the climate denial organization Global Warming Policy Foundation" according to the desmog blog:
https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-tol
Prominent GW deniars are seldom given much air time at this here.
Terry
See below for who Professor Tol is. I think desmog blog might have got it wrong, very wrong. Climate denier he is not. He is an
economistThe phrase "knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing" springs to mind.
And he may be right in some ways if you start with the belief that unfettered economic growth is more important than the human suffering required to achieve it.. Up to very recently climate change has only scratched the surface of world economic growth. Only now are we seeing events that may have long-lasting fundamental impacts on individual societies. Even then an economist can legitimately claim that there are long-term economic benefits of major catastrophes. The Puerto Rico catastrophe may well be the event to accelerate renewable energy investment throughout the Caribbean. Some historians make a good case that the Black Death that took out one third of Europe's population made the space for the renaissance.
As Stalin said "one man's death is a tragedy, one million is just a statistic".
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/289812Prof Richard Tol
Post: Professor of Economics (Economics), University of Sussex, England.
Location: JUBILEE BUILDING JUB-281
Email: R.Tol@sussex.ac.uk
Personal homepage: Tol_Richard
Telephone numbers
Internal: 7282
UK: 01273 877282
International: +44 1273 877282
Research expertise:
Climate change, Climate economics, Economics, Energy, Energy economics, Environment, Environmental economics, Scientometrics, tourism
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Biography
Richard S.J. Tol is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Academia Europaea.
Previously, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton University.
Richard received an M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D. in economics (1997) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is ranked among the top 150 economists in the world, and has over 200 publications in learned journals (with 100+ co-authors), one book, three edited volumes, and many minor publications.
He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and climate, and is interested in tourism and scientometrics.
Role
Professor of Economics
Community and Business
Richard is an editor for Energy Economics. He is advisor and referee of national and international policy and research. He is an author (contributing, lead, principal and convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007; an author and editor of the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies; a GTAP Research Fellow. He is actively involved in the European Climate Forum, the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment, and the Energy Modeling Forum.