Cool Head on Global Warming

As the world’s foremost economist on climate change, William D. Nordhaus, a professor at Yale University, has long held the planet’s distant future in mind. But right now, paddling a canoe on a salt lagoon in late August, his thoughts were more immediate. They were fixed on his elementary-school-age granddaughter, crouched midship. She was hunting jellyfish. Read entire article on The Chronicle of Higher Education