/sci/ - Science & Math

"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known."
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000446/epdf
http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0301420716302665/1-s2.0-S0301420716302665-main.pdf?_tid=b1f404b0-f26f-11e6-a813-00000aacb361&acdnat=1487047402_e88f9e5ee78874cc1fbae78e8d9ffcb3
>Despite its intuitive appeal, however, the historic polluter pays
principle suffers serious shortcomings. By focusing on past rather
than current production, it allows developing countries and their
firms—the world's largest current and future source of greenhouse
gas emissions—to use this valuable global resource without fully
paying for it.
>Of even greater significance, it reduces the incentives in
both developing and developed countries to generate new technologies
reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In short, the historic
polluter pays principle promotes none of the efficiencies that we
normally associate with the original polluter pays principle.

ITT: Addressing AGW
All disciplines welcome

>>8537611
They turn only against themselves.