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Selected Errors Made in Economics, in Research on Global Climate Change

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Global climate changes attract interest from representatives of various scientific disciplines, including economists, which is manifested, among others, by a significant number of published studies on the subject. Due to the fact that these changes are a complex, multidimensional challenge, their study requires interdisciplinarity, and this in turn triggers additional cognitive and methodological difficulties. In this way, there are revealed complex errors made in economics, in studies of global climate change. The article presents eight of their selected forms, namely: (1) inadequate information flow between disciplines investigating this phenomenon, especially between natural sciences and social sciences, (2) limiting research to the presentation of views and discussions of other authors, (3) disregarding data describing the actual course of global warming, as well as its causes and consequences, (4) using inadequate research methods and methodologies, (5) abusing idealisational formal and economic models, (6) studying the phenomenon of global climate changes based on “statically retouched” data, (7) inappropriate temporal perspective of conducted research, (8) lack of pragmatism in formulated solutions, conclusions and recommendations.

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    Anthropozoic is a concept proposed by Antonio Stoppani and Joseph LeConte at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a new geological epoch after the Holocene. However, it was rejected by the geologists. In the late 90s of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen (ozone layer researcher) proposed the term Anthropocene. It became the subject of serious discussions, also at the forum of the British Geological Society, while at the same time it became accepted in the scientific and popular science literature. M. Błoński, Skończył się holocen, rozpoczęła nowa epoka geologiczna? https://kopalniawiedzy.pl/holocen-antropocen-Ziemia-epoka-geologiczna.13050 [access: December 31, 2018] [68].

  2. 2.

    It would be interesting to learn the conclusions of research in the field of knowledge acquired by the inhabitants of Poland and Upper Silesia as a result of the projects constituting the Earth Climate COP Katowice 2018. It can be argued that it would be close to zero, and the only trace would be left by ill-conceived statements.

  3. 3.

    The other global ecological problems mentioned here, arising at the interface between human-economy and natural environment, generate very similar challenges as global climate change. The related executive errors (cognitive, methodical or descriptive) are made during their examination and description.

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Czaja, S., Becla, A. (2020). Selected Errors Made in Economics, in Research on Global Climate Change. In: Daszyńska-Żygadło, K., Bem, A., Ryszawska, B., Jáki, E., Hajdíková, T. (eds) Finance and Sustainability. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34401-6_14

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