This is a guy who claimed that 3.5 degrees of global warming was "optimal". He was absolutely delusional and built his models on preposterous assumptions. He did a vast amount of damage to the world by providing false justifications for climate denial and inaction on climate change. The fossil fuel companies must have loved him.

"when Nordhaus looked at the effects of 6 C warming, he did not forecast horror. Instead, we should expect “damages” of between 8.5 percent and 12.5 percent of world GDP over the course of the 21st century. Writing in the Economic Journal, Stern set Nordhaus straight in the harshest terms: “We could see deaths on a huge scale, migration of billions of people, and severe conflicts around the world,” he wrote. “It is profoundly implausible that numbers around 10 percent of GDP offer a sensible description of the kind of disruption and catastrophe that 6 C of warming could cause.”"

It says a lot about economics that he received accolades.

https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-winning-economics-of...

https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-high-priest-of-ecomoderni...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-linden-nobel-eco...

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/misguided-nordh...

William Nordhaus has died