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How hot will it get in a world run by economists? A physicist’s take on climate change policy

  2022-08-26 (or before) in podcasts.ox.ac.uk

Physics is the foundation of current concerns about climate change, but climate policy sometimes appears like a baroque superstructure built with little reference to the foundations. For example, global temperatures depend on the accumulated stock of carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere over all time, not the flow of emissions in any given year, but climate policy remains overwhelmingly pre-occupied with emission flows, not carbon stocks.

  Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change

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