Indeed, and it's hard to decide which of the two is the silliest.

Author: willard (@nevaudit)
Comment:
> A better analogy is between the “correct” discount rate and the value of climate sensitivity.

Indeed, and it's hard to decide which of the two is the silliest.

Which returns us to the last time I visited:

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There’s no discount rate to “find out.” In part because like climate sensitivity we only can establish a very rough ballpark, and in part because, like interest rates, it’s a human decision.

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http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2017/07/08/one-team-two-team-red-team-blue-team/#comment-59593

It'd be hard to deny that all we have are ranges of values in both cases. Yet the luckwarm playbook comes with this very pussyfooting in both cases.

Fancy that.