/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm going to try to post weekly threads about Climate Change and maybe other anons will be inspired to do the same.

This is a serious thread about Climate Change and what should be done to combat Climate Change.

Deniers, skeptics, revisionists etc. should be ignored but will be tolerated.

Most of the people who lurk on this board are engineers and we have a moral responsibility to inform the public.

Useful links:
FAQs on climate change
http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_faq.pdf
Technical Summary
http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_ts.pdf

Here are some topics that I think are important:
1. How realistic is wind/solar energy? Many of us know that those in the media and general public advocate switching to wind/solar energy. However, with our limited battery technology and the costs (both financial and time) associated with completely overhauling the existing electrical grid, how useful is wind/solar energy? Their industrial use also seems to be quite limited.

2. Carbon taxes. Do they work? It seems like they aren't targeted at the big polluters but mainly at middle class consumers.

3. Nuclear fusion.