Now we are trying to establish the position of a climate warning sign. You have heard a number of opinions on positioning that sign. Arguments that if you put it too close, there could be significant economic impacts, impacts on standards of living. If you put the sign too far away, we could be surrounded by crocodiles before realizing it. We're not sure what is out there, what kind of crocodiles or other hazards may be waiting.
Climate change is clearly a very important issue with high stakes.
A quote from a book by E. Bright Wilson, Jr. Only the naive or dishonest claim that their own objectivity is a sufficient safeguard. The mechanism used to provide information as a basis for decisions on how to meet the ultimate objective is, in effect, an experiment. Design of that experiment, that mechanism or process, is critical. There is no one that can cover all of this material, that can be an expert in all of the fields covered by these references.