Peer Reviewed

13. Darnell, C., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Wong, T.E., & Srikrishnan, V. (2025) The interplay of future emissions and geophysical uncertainties for projections of sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change.

12. Prest, B., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., and Anthoff, A. (2024). Equity weighting increases the social cost of carbon: New government guidelines could transform benefit-cost analysis of US climate policy.  Science, 385(6710), 715-717.

11. Rennels, L., & Chasins, S. E. (2023). How Domain Experts Use an Embedded DSL. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 7(OOPSLA2), 1499-1530.

10. Tan, T., Rennels, L. & Parthum, B. (2024). The social costs of hydrofluorocarbons and the benefits from their expedited phase-down. Nature Climate Change.

9. Rennert, K., Errickson, F., Prest, B. C.,Rennels, L., Newell, R. G., Pizer, W., ... & Anthoff, D. (2022). Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2. Nature, 610(7933), 687-692. Equal contribution by Prest, Errickson, and Rennels.

8. Wong, T. E., Ledna, C., Rennels, L., Sheets, H., Errickson, F. C., Diaz, D., & Anthoff, D. (2022). Sea Level and Socioeconomic Uncertainty Drives High‐End Coastal Adaptation Costs. Earth's Future, 10(12), e2022EF003061.

7. Wong, T. E., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Srikrishnan, V., Bakker, A., Keller, K., & Anthoff, D. (2022). MimiBRICK. jl: A Julia package for the BRICK model for sea-level change in the Mimi integrated modeling framework. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(76), 4556.

6. Rennert, K., Prest, B. C., Pizer, W. A., Newell, R. G., Anthoff, D., Kingdon, C., Rennels, L., ... & Errickson, F. (2021). The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

5. Melvin, A.M., Larsen, P., Boehlert, B., Neumann, J.E., Chinowsky, P., Espinet, X., Martinich, J., Baumann, M.S., Rennels, L., Bothner, A. and Nicolsky, D.J. (2017). Climate change damages to Alaska public infrastructure and the economics of proactive adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(2), E122-E131.

4. Chapra, S. C., Boehlert, B., Fant, C., Bierman Jr, V. J., Henderson, J., Mills, D., Mas, D., Rennels, L., Jantarasami, L., Martinich, J., Strzepek, K. M., Bierman, V., and Paerl, H. (2017). Climate change impacts on harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters: a screening-level assessment. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(16), 8933-8943.

3. Fant, C., Srinivasan, R., Boehlert, B., Rennels, L., Chapra, S. C., Strzepek, K. M., ... and Martinich, J. (2017). Climate change impacts on US water quality using two models: HAWQS and US basins. Water, 9(2), 118.

2. Larsen, P. H., Boehlert, B., Eto, J., Hamachi-LaCommare, K., Martinich, J., and Rennels, L. (2018). Projecting future costs to US electric utility customers from power interruptions. Energy, 147, 1256-1277.

`1. Melvin, A. M., Murray, J., Boehlert, B., Martinich, J. A., Rennels, L., and Rupp, T. S. (2017). Estimating wildfire response costs in Alaska’s changing climate. Climatic Change, 141(4), 783-795.

Working Papers

4. Burke, M., Wilson, A., Avirmed, K., Wallstein, J., Martins, M., Behrer., P., Callahan, C., Childs, M., Choi, J., French, K., Gould, C., Heft-Neal, S., Jing, R., Qiu, M., Rennels, L., and Southworth, E.K. (2025). Understanding and addressing temperature impacts on mortality. NBER Working Group Paper w34313.

3. Qiu, M., Callahan, C.W., Higuera-Mendieta, I., Rennels, L., Parthum, B., Diffenbaugh, N.S., & Burke, M. (2025). Valuing Wildfire Smoke Related Mortality Benefits from Climate Mitigation. NBER Working Paper w33829.

2. Kopits., E., Kraynak., D., Parthum, B., Rennels, L., Smith, D., Spink, E., Griffiths., C., Perla., J., Burns., N., Howerton., M. (2025). Economic Damages from Climate Change to U.S. Populations: Integrating Evidence from Recent Studies. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics Working Paper Series.

1. Wingenroth, J., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Anthoff, D., & Prest, B. Accounting for Biodiversity Loss Raises the Social Cost of Carbon. Resources for the Future Working Paper.

Under Review, Submitted, in Preparation

Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Keller, K., Parthum, B., Smith, D., and Anthoff, A. Considering Robustness to Deep Uncertainties Drives More Rapid Emissions Reductions. (Submitted)

Rennels, L., Kingdon, C., Plevin, R., Rising, J., and Anthoff, D. Mimi.jl: A Computational Platform for Integrated Assessment Modeling. (Submitted)

Kopits., E., Kraynak., D., Parthum, B., Rennels, L., Smith, D., Spink, E., Griffiths., C., Perla., J., Burns., N., Howerton., M. (2025). Economic Damages from Climate Change to U.S. Populations: Integrating Evidence from Recent Studies. (Under Review)

Qiu, M., Callahan, C.W., Higuera-Mendieta, I., Rennels, L., Parthum, B., Diffenbaugh, N.S., & Burke, M. Valuing wildfire smoke-related mortality benefits from climate mitigation. (Submitted)

Freese, L., Virguez, E., Davis, S., Rennels, L., and Caldeira, K. Country-Level Distribution of Trillions of Dollars in Future Climate Damages from Current Annual Emissions. (Submitted)

Bressler, D.R., Shimberg, N., Rennels, L., Parthum, B., Smith, D., Errickson, F., & Anthoff, D. Large Disproportional Mortality Impacts on Poor Countries Drive a Higher Equity Weighted Social Cost of CO2. (Submitted)

Burke, M., Wilson, A., Avirmed, K., Wallstein, J., Martins, M., Behrer., P., Callahan, C., Childs, M., Choi, J., French, K., Gould, C., Heft-Neal, S., Jing, R., Qiu, M., Rennels, L., and Southworth, E.K. (2025). Understanding and addressing temperature impacts on mortality. (Submitted)

Schaumann, F., Anthoff, D., Druup, M., Haensel, M., Moore, F.C., Rennels, L., & Rising, J. Structural Interactions in Integrated Assessment Models.

Errickson, F., Wong, T.E., Keller, K., Rennels, L., & Anthoff, D. Improved climate modeling reduces extreme social cost of carbon estimates.