The Pope and Climate Change: Ignoring the Hockey Sticks of Human History

09/21/2015 Mises Wire Joseph T. Salerno

Before Pope Francis speaks another word about global warming, he should familiarize himself with these two charts:

CO2 and temperature in the geological history of the earth

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