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Speaker: Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of economics at Wesleyan University and Director of the John E. Andrus Public Affairs Center at Wesleyan. Location: Princeton University Date: May 7, 2008 More: Gary Yohe discusses methods for estimating of the costs of climate change and the role of uncertainty, and proposes a strategy for how the IPCC's climate change mitigation group should approach the next assessment. Gary Yohe is a researcher on the economics of climate change and integrated assessment modelling. Among other works, he is an editor of the book "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change", co-author (with Edwin Mansfield) of "Microeconomics: Theory and Applications", and a senior member and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) The "Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Science, Policy and Politics" lecture series is co-sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)