Policy discussions on global warming are focused on mitigation and adaptation. Here the role of ex post compensation as a substitute for ex ante mitigation is considered. In a simple 2-period model the salient features of the global warming problem suggest mitigation is difficult to motivate. A...

This paper applies principal component analysis to investigate the linkages, or dominant co-fluctuation patterns, of per capita carbon dioxide emissions across countries for the time period 1950–2000. Energy resource world markets are investigated as an offsetting mechanism possibly...

Upward-trending graphs of global surface temperatures are presented as evidence of global warming on the assumption that weather stations only register climatic changes, as opposed to, say, growth in economic activity in the vicinity of the thermometers, or the deterioration of the measurement...