Years-old ‘facts’ used to deny climate change

Since 1991, and now including Donald Trump, US groups lobbying against carbon dioxide controls have relied on the research of two economists, says Benjamin Franta

Twenty five years after the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, on May 9, 1992, the world has yet to implement a treaty that effectively addresses global warming.

Now, following Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, it is time to investigate the delay.