Several things:
1. How did conservative get red and the left get blue. I like blue.
2. Neither the deniers or the warmers are lying exactly but they are working at the upper and lower bounds of what is known. The problem isn’t that they are wrong, the problem is we don’t understand the problem and there is too much uncertainty..
3.. We don’t need a red team or a blue team. We need purple team. We aren’t interested in fantasy scenarios at the error bounds we are interested in what is likely to happen..
4. The RCPs need to be rewritten to reflect peak fossil energy in 2040. The people that wrote the 1000+ PPM outyear RCP scenarios need be replaced with people from industry who can provide informed input on future fossil fuel consumption rates. The RCPs need to reflect the declining efficiency of the carbon emissions to atmospheric transfer.
A better understanding through study of the atmospheric/ocean physics, natural forcings, and the environmental response to more CO2, together with more realistic scenarios will better guide to making future decisions.
Since the cost of deployment is much higher than the cost of development we would be better served on working on development of new energy technologies and deferring deployment until the “science is really settled” or the systems are justified in their own right..
