Brief Communications Arising : Snowball prevention questioned Arising from: W. R. Peltier, Y. Liu & J. W. Crowley Nature 450, 813

  View image Climate change is linked to emissions, in turn to economic growth. Limiting emissions is then about limiting growth. Thus, sharing growth between nations has been the main bugbear. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change expressed the principle of equity by enjoining countries to take action based on common

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Transport affects climate directly and indirectly through mechanisms that cause both warming and cooling of climate, and the effects operate on very different timescales.