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I agree too, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable holding expertise in climate science up as evidence that one knows best when it comes to such policy decisions. I

I agree too, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable holding expertise in climate science up as evidence that one knows best when it comes to such policy decisions. I'm an expert at automation. That means I have an excellent sense of what tasks can be automated and how soon, and of a lot of the societal consequences of technological progress, but that doesn't automatically qualify me to choose the best public policy to prevent the associated loss of jobs or help the people who get unemployed as a result.

DennisP 7y ago
In the book, he said he talked to a lot of people who run power grids, asking how difficult it was to incorporate unpredictable power sources. He also learned a lot about the Integral Fast Reactor project. In any case, one thing climate scientists know better than anyone is the urgency of the problem. Consequently, they only want to fix the climate, as quickly and directly as possible. A lot of other people seem to use climate as an excuse to push for other goals.