What is the best research topic about climate change?

Question

What is the best research topic about climate change?

Answer 1

“Best” really depends on what you want it to do but the strongest climate change topics are the ones that are specific, relevant, and debatable

Here are a few solid, high-impact directions you could run with:

How is climate change impacting California’s droughts and wildfires?

What effects will rising temperatures have on communities in our area?

Should governments or individuals be more responsible for stopping climate change?

Is switching to renewable energy worth the cost?

Should there be stricter laws on pollution, even if it hurts businesses?

Is fast fashion a major contributor to climate change?

My personal favorite: “Who is more responsible for solving climate change: governments, companies, or individuals?”

Answer 2

The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) features brief summaries of specific topics in natural resource sciences and management related to climate change. Below are a few from expert authors with brief intros and topic links: (let me know if you would like help with your research paper)

Agroforestry

Assisted Migration

Biodiversity and Climate Change

Carbon and Land Management, an introduction

Carbon as One of Many Management Objectives

Grasslands and Climate Change

Importance of Forest Cover

Landscape Analysis

Management of Forest Carbon Stocks

Carbon Benefits of Wood-Based Products and Energy

Carbon Considerations in Land Management

Answer 3

Whether outsourcing carbon emissions, by stringent US environmental standards, causes a net increase in world air polution, due to lower standards in the countries where companies relocate to evade US standards?

It's a possible example of the "Peltzman Effect," (a Chicago economist), where high standards lead to a misleading false sense of safety, causing a net worse result. Some define economics as the study of unintended effects, or counterproductive effects.

Plus China, India and Mexico have so much pollution, anything the US does will have little or no effect on net world climate change anyway, regardless of counterproductive effects, another Peltzman Effect. China was wearing face masks, even before the pandemic due to excessive air polution. Mexico City has so much pollution it's equivalent to smoking 2 packs of non-filter cigarettes daily.

OR if you're into economics, even a little bit, consider the implication of the global warming model projecting costs which assume a zero interest rate

Has the global warming model ever predicted a scenario that came true? Has it been used in any other science with successful results? The hockey stick prediction seems to disprove the global warming model, yet the global warming advocates continue to ignore the failed prediction.

Compare the 1970's hysteria over global winter alarmists, predicting a winter disaster, with today's global warming hysteria. Why should we believe them this time?

Or if you're a True Believer in global warming, and harbor no sketpicism about it, then go with the topics the other post answer suggests.