Don’t forget the pony while you’re at it. Or how about instead of waiting fifty years for something that might never happen we get started now on what we know will work to reduce the currently far-from-trivial possibility of a change to the world’s climate and economy that really would be ‘disastrous’, ie runaway climate change? Ignoring that and calling the much lower economic costs of the kind of carbon abatement Stern and Gore propose ‘disastrous’ really is at best disingenuous and at worst recklessly dishonest.

Don’t forget the pony while you’re at it. Or how about instead of waiting fifty years for something that might never happen we get started now on what we know will work to reduce the currently far-from-trivial possibility of a change to the world’s climate and economy that really would be ‘disastrous’, ie runaway climate change? Ignoring that and calling the much lower economic costs of the kind of carbon abatement Stern and Gore propose ‘disastrous’ really is at best disingenuous and at worst recklessly dishonest.