section 1. The public life of climate change : the first twenty-five years -- section 2. Science -- section 3. Researching -- section 4. Culture -- section 5. Policy -- section 6. Communicating -- section 7. Controversy -- section 8. Futures -- section 9. Reactions to why we disagree about...

I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost of climate change have been published, a research effort that is in sharp contrast to the urgency of the public...