Global Climate Change

This paper considers whether international environmental public goods provision, such as mitigation of climate change, is better dealt with through regional cooperation than through a global treaty. Previous research suggests that, at best, a global environmental treaty will achieve very little. At worst…

Current climate change predictions have been confirmed by an ancient warming event that surpasses today s warming world, according to a new study. Between 2.3 to 3.3 million years ago during the Pliocene Epoch, the Earth s temperature was around 2 degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than…

Is the global climate changing? Is the world getting warmer? Yes. But let’s look more closely at what that means. We can start with the time from 1856 to the present. We have a good record of global temperature for this recent period. Accurate temperature measurements were made at many locations around…