How can an efficient climate treaty be framed to accommodate continually developing science? It needs to control widely differing sources and sinks flexibly while explicitly distinguishing those which are well understood and quantified from others.
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Grubb, M., Victor, D. & Hope, C. Pragmatics in the greenhouse. Nature 354, 348–350 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/354348a0
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