"I'm not a climate denier. I writei the book, very clearly, that we need to do something," he says. "This is sort of a culmination of a lot of work i've been doing over the past decade." The author has written papers and given talks about this with this basic message: We don't know what's going to be an existential threat.
Economist Robert Pindyck of MIT talks about his book, Climate Future, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Pindyck lays out what we know and do not know about climate change. He argues that because of the nature of greenhouse gases, adaptation must be part of the policy response to climate change.