# Richard Tol Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Economist; professor of economics, University of Sussex, and professor of the economics of climate change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ⚠️ (affiliations not re-checked) - Climate economist and integrated-assessment modeller (author of the FUND model ⚠️ not re-checked here); a frequent source for Lomborg, and a sharp critic of the *Stern Review*. - Wrote "A tribute to Bill Nordhaus" on his Substack *Tol Tales* (Nov 2, 2026), which Lomborg shared in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on a Tribute to Bill Nordhaus (2026-11-02)|a Tribute to Bill Nordhaus]]. From the screenshot (verbatim): "Nordhaus was the external examiner for my PhD, part of which was about building a multi-regional version of his DICE model… My papers on the subject typically conclude that Nordhaus was roughly right." - Lomborg's Oct 30 reply on the Stern Review ([Oct 30](https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/2116182870561587454)) quoted Tol's critique of Stern (posted on Bluesky ⚠️). - See also [[Topics/Thomas Sowell/People/William Nordhaus|William Nordhaus]].