Ex-climate change denier: "It's insane to play dice with the planet"
Trump made headlines this week when he said "I don't think science knows" about climate change and claimed that mitigating the wildfires raging through California was simply a matter of forest management. But Jerry Taylor, a former "climate skeptic" who is now the president and co-founder of the Niskanen Center, a public policy think tank, says "it's insane to play dice with the planet" by ignoring evidence that the climate is changing.
"We shouldn't be having a white-hot debate about the most likely outcome from climate change because that's not what risk management is about," Taylor said Thursday during the CBSN special "A Climate in Crisis." "Risk management is about looking at the full distribution of possible outcomes from climate change and weighing them accordingly."
Taylor said that while it's certainly possible that climate change will have a more modest impact, "it's also quite possible that it's going to be an extremely cataclysmic event."
"In fact, the possibility that that's what we have in store for our future is becoming more and more abundantly clear as we watch extreme weather events play out and the warming play out at a more dramatic pace than we had anticipated," he added. "And if we look at that full distribution of possible outcomes from climate change, it's insane to play dice with the planet like that, and to ignore the real risks that we're facing today and that our kids and grandchildren will face."
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