Have social scientists been able to put a cost to the increasing scepticism about climate change?
We haven’t put a cost on it. There’s undoubtedly increasing scepticism. Whether it is justified is another matter. Sure, there were a number of errors in the IPCC report. But if I was writing a 1,000-page document, I would make some errors. With the exception of glacier melts, which is fairly critical as far as India is concerned, most of the other mistakes don’t affect the fundamentals. To me, what is interesting is that most of the mistakes are in volume two, which is all about impacts Adaptation is complicated, because adaptation decisions are made by millions and millions of economic actors. . And our level of knowledge about the impacts is pretty poor. So, it’s not surprising that the IPCC picked up what information it could. Of course, everybody has to admit and be transparent when they make a mistake. Climategate. Yes, I think it does make people sceptical. But I am absolutely sure that the fundamentals haven’t changed. Considering the political realities of today, what would be
