FWIW, I was on a panel a few years ago at the Aspen Environment Forum with Gernot Wagner. My take on him was that he was a fairly cautious thinker, and very worried about the social & economic impacts of climate (he's an economist at EDF). I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say.
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