Hi Paul:   "... Do you both think ...  climate scientist(s) ... don't know already?..."   Well, PS, we all certainly *hope* that you're absolutely right ... but having been in a graduate-level research department a time or two, some of us recall former colleagues who might have been _extremely_ erudite in some narrow specialization, but were hopelessly uninformed about anything outside of their specialist purview.  :-/  I mean, naïve to the extent that they wouldn't know how to reset a circuit-breaker if the lights went out, couldn't be trusted to do a competent job of mowing the grass, and might well struggle to figure how long to cook a 3-minute egg.  :-/  These aren't the people who ought to be trusted with dictating economic, industrial, or energy policy.  (Look at e.g. the famous genius linguist ... who thinks we can have the same wealthy, high-tech society we do now, even if we abandon market economics and run a country of 320 million people like a giant hippie ...