you're right we don't have a control earth, so the precautionary principle applies: we need to not only make policy for what we know the climate is doing, and what we are doing to it, but also have some degree of margin of error for what we don't know

> because it looks fancy, etc. A lot of the plans we see to reduce emissions are accountant level number manipulation r

That's because accountants actually rule the world, and any serious change in the way things are run is going to mostly involve accountants