see refs herehttp://bruegel.org/2012/04/blogs-review-the-discounting-debate-in-climate-change-mitigation/ …
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was my basic line of reasoning. But your points are well-taken. Thanks for the clear thinking and feedback.
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just say "maybe you think extinction is pretty unlikely, like just 0.1% per yr" and then pull back the curtain . . .
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to respond with intellectual integrity. In fact, the entire exchange seemed like a paradigm of good scholarship. Maybe?
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i am pleased that they replied and corrected report. not pleased that corrected version still cites stern
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stern's # is hard to interpret bc it's a social compromise w researchers who want a way higher # for non-xrisk reasons
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stern may well have thought "0.1 is too high as estimate, but i'm already 'pushing it' relative to standard, high # s"
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like, all the subsequent debate is about "is it acceptable to set the number to basically zero?"
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and stern isn't an xrisk guy anyway so his actual estimate, /whatever it is/, would just be an educated non-expert estimate
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so in fact your other data could be used to critique stern: "xrisk experts say your non-expert # is too low"
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