Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'

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2. At the risk of

again pointing out an old speculation, I would say that here is more evidence supporting my "theory" that institutional science has in general- even if sincerely and disinterestedly pursued according to cautious and dispassionate process- has a deeply ingrained bias which would lead to pushing rosy scenarios versus bad ones, optimistic versus realistic, blindness toward undesireable consequences. And is commerce financed, purposed, driven.

That would mean that worst case scenarios would likely have more validity overall than the "mainstream" and the proponents of truth would be affected by "popular" opposition away from their simple points.

And that this naive process of inevitable "discovery" would begin to be engaged once results become wildly undeniable.

These stages of awakening in the "conservative" institutions appear to me predictably imbecilic and self-serving even if sincere. It is all pretty dramatic how a professional has wasted his life and admits "mistakes". How is the human race to survive? Or must we endure our history of post Ice Age stupid in despair or a cat fight all the way to extinction? Instead we are getting ridiculously weak warnings and more deferential restraint to the money market endgame for Life.