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This note reports an updated analysis of global climate change and its relationship with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions: advanced methods rooted in econometrics are applied to bivariate climatic time series. We found a strong evidence for the absence of Granger causality from CO2 emissions to global surface temperature: we can conclude that our findings point out that the hypothesis of anthropogenically-induced climate change still need a conclusive confirmation using the most appropriate methods for data analysis.
Both authors conceived the study: Massimo Bilancia wrote Sects. 1 and 3 and Domenico Vitale wrote Sects. 2 and 4.
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Bilancia, M., Vitale, D. (2012). Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions and Global Warming: Evidence from Granger Causality Analysis. In: Di Ciaccio, A., Coli, M., Angulo Ibanez, J. (eds) Advanced Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets. Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21037-2_21
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