Box Plots in Excel

Strangely, Excel does not have a chart type for "box plots". In general, it's graphing capabilities are not that great. You can make an approximation to a boxplot chart using some obscure options which are quite hidden away. I used these instructions to come up with this:Not quite as pretty as the example in Wikipedia, but probably good enough.

Google E-Books

I got an e-mail from Edward Elgar Publishing this morning announcing that they are joining Google's E-Books initiative. It was launched yesterday and is only available in the US so far. Seems it is yet another new format but will be available for many devices (unlike Amazon's Kindle).

Proposal Tips

Actually, the article is titled "How to Fail in Grant-Writing". It's kind of funny. Well, some of it is. I'm re-working my (unsubmitted) ARC proposal from last year right now...

IPCC Position Available

IPCC is looking for Programme Manager, Communications and Media Relations based in Geneva.

CCEP Debuts on RePEc at 17th in Australia

The Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, which was just recently launched, enters the RePEc ranking for Australian economics institutions at 17th (roughly top 14%). CCEP is a network of researchers working on climate issues directed by Frank Jotzo of the Crawford School at ANU>. We have a working paper series also on RePEc (which I am administering) and a conference/workshop is planned for

What is Business as Usual for China and India?

My paper with Frank Jotzo in Energy Policy argued that while India's goal of cutting emissions intensity by 25% between 2005 and 2020 was likely to be similar to the business as usual reduction in emissions, China's goal was much more ambitious. China aims to reduce emissions intensity by 40-45% over this time frame, while we estimated it would decline by 24% under business as usual.By contrast,

CCEP Working Papers Now on RePEc

You can now download CCEP Working Papers from RePEc. Since launching the series with six papers we have added a further paper by Leo Dobes: "Notes on Applying ‘Real Options’ to Climate Change Adaptation Measures, with Examples from Vietnam.