Tyler Cowen’s whole gimmick is to play dumb and distract people from the actual issue. Back when unemployment was 10% he wrote about “zero marginal product” people. He literally called people useless. As if the financial crisis was caused by video games and dirty movies on the internet. When pressed on it he admitted he doesn’t know much about macroeconomics. Change the subject, then play dumb, that’s his only move.

No surprise. The author is a middle aged conservative economist. These people are more concerned with the next 30 years of gains than climate change, as they won’t be around holding the bag when crops start to fail.

I think the difference is we know as much as can know about it already. He is a research economist looking to acquire data, not solve problems.

I think there's a lot allocated to it, both funds and brainpower. Maybe there should be more, but money is probably not the bottleneck.

It's not necessarily the worst thing either. Some researchers think nuclear apocalypse is still more likely to cause human extinction, which could happen if too much political pressure goes upon climate change.

The point of this was to look at questions the author thought were interesting but maybe overlooked I think, not a "TOP 10 QUESTIONS WE NEED ANSWERED NOW OR THE HUMAN RACE IS DOOOOMED!!!" listicle.