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Chapter 18Global Climate Change

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Figure 18-1: Carbon Emissions Due to Fossil Fuel Consumption, 1860–1995

Source: Adapted from Manne and Richels, Buying Greenhouse Insurance: The Economic Costs of CO2 Emission Limits. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Updated with data only from Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/. Courtesy of CDIAC.


Figure 18-2: Temperature Trend 1000–2000

Source: Adapted from The Economist, Nov. 18-24, 2000; data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDAIC), http://cdiac.csd.esd.ornl.gov/.

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Figure 18-3: Global Temperature Trends Projected to 2100

Source: IPCC, 1996. IPCC, 2001, projects a slightly higher range of temperature increase from 2.4°C to 5.8°C by 2100.


Figure 18-4: Projected Carbon Emissions Through 2020, Business as Usual Scenario

Source: Adapted from Duchin and Lange, 1994.


Figure 18-5: Per Capita Emissions of Carbon by Region, Business as Usual Scenario

Source: Adapted from Duchin and Lange, 1994.


Figure 18-6: Long-Term Costs and Benefits of Abating Global Climate Change

Source: Adapted from William R. Cline, The Economics of Global Warming, Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1992. Reprinted by permission of Institute for International Economics.


Figure 18-7: The Economic Effects of a Carbon Tax


Figure 18-8: Gasoline Price Versus use in Industrial Countries, 1994

Source: Adapted from Roodman, 1997.


Figure 18-9: United States Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 1990–2010

Source: Percentage growth and proposed emissions cuts cited in “American Demands Something for Nothing, But the World Needs an End to its Hot Air,” The Independent (London), November 27, 2000.

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Figure 18-10: Least-Cost Carbon Reduction with Tradable Permits—Determination of Carbon Permit Price

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