The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Comment
Anthony C. Fisher, W. Michael Hanemann, Michael J. Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker
American Economic Review · 2012 · Volume 102 · Issue 7
Abstract
In a series of studies employing a variety of approaches, we have found that the potential impact of climate change on US agriculture is likely negative. Deschênes and Greenstone (2007) report dramatically different results based on regressions of agricultural profits and yields on weather variables. The divergence is explained by (1) missing and incorrect weather and climate data in their study; (2) their use of older climate change projections rather than the more recent and less optimistic projections from the Fourth Assessment Report; and (3) difficulties in their profit measure due to the confounding effects of storage.
Keywords
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope, Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets, Land Ownership and Tenure, Land Reform, Land Use, Irrigation, Agriculture and Environment, Valuation of Environmental Effects, Climate, Natural Disasters, Global Warming
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