Sunday, April 13, 2014

What Can Scientists Say about Ethics and Economics of Combating Climate Change?

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report shows categories of greenhouse gas emissions and how they grew in the atmosphere between 1970 and 2010. The categories are emissions that stem from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes (yellow), CO2 from forestry and other land uses (orange), methane (light blue), nitrous oxide (blue) and fluorinated gases (dark blue), some of which are used as refrigerants. (Credit: IPCC) Click to enlarge.
Can science tell us how much ethical responsibility different countries bear for combating climate change?  It's going to try.  According to a draft of a forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, ethics takes a front-and-center role in a forum traditionally reserved for exploring scientific consensus.

 What Can Scientists Say about Ethics and Economics of Combating Climate Change?
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