Hey Cog, good to see you are back. There was certainly more politics on the nonalarmist side. But that doesn’t mean the AGW alarmist side was free of it, or that they had no preconceived notions before writing the report (or especially the summary). In any case the science is clear: manmade CO2 causes warming. If there is any catastrophic warming due to that warming (not likely) there is zero chance that the CO2 games currently proposed will have any effect on that.
Not really back; I had a bit of extra time (like now) to add some historic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uninteresting narrative.
If there is any catastrophic warming due to that warming (not likely)
Catastrophe is one thing; serious detrimental consequences are another. I cannot see any scenario now in which there will not be serious downside to BAU. But I'm convinced there is some momentum behind the necessity to change how energy is produced, regardless of climate consequence. Judging for myself, I think wind + natural gas (Pickens Plan) + nuclear is the most logical way to buy time. I'm getting really more and more concerned about the potential hydrological consequences.