Table of Contents:

• Title
  
• Basics of the Greenhouse Effect
  
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  
• IPCC Announcement Regarding Global Warming
  
• Transition Cost Issues
  
• Elements of the Policy Challenge
  
• Basic Science Linking Greenhouse Gases to Warming
  
• Listing of Greenhouse Gases
  
• Predictions: Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide
  
• Table: Predicted Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Scenario
  
• More Predictions
  
• Predictions Regarding Global Warming
  
• Possible Implications of Global Warming
  
• Recent Downward Adjustment in Warming Predictions
  
• Evidence for a Warming Climate
  
• More Evidence
  
• Uncertainty and the Insurance Argument for Greenhouse Gas Controls
  
• International Summit Meetings
  
• Earth Summit
  
• Have Voluntary Controls Worked?
  
• More on International Coordination
  
• Economic Policy Studies on Global Warming
  
• Arguments Made by The Economist Magazine
  
• Boyd et al. Economic Analysis
  
• Findings of Boyd et al.
  
• Nordhaus and Yang Economic Study
  
• Case Study: Chinese Economic Development, Coal, and Global Warming
  
• Energy Use and Economic Growth in China
  
• More on the Case of China
  
• Chinese Economic Development Premised on Coal