Reddit mentions of The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

Climate Casino by Nordhaus is probably the best introduction.

For internet resources, Berkley's econ department has a very good blog and the non-partisan environmental economics think-tank Resources for the Future frequently writes good stuff.

Here are some books by William D Nordhaus who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his writing on the topic ...

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Global-Commons-Economics-Climate/dp/026253746X/

https://www.amazon.com/Question-Balance-Weighing-Options-Policies/dp/0300137486

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Casino-Uncertainty-Economics-Warming/dp/030021264X

> The Democrats ought to seek better education in climate science and Engineering and then propose pragmatic solutions that are incrementally better for both the environment and America's GDP. And not fuck up foreign relations with above mentioned countries

Agreed, from the right. Texas Republicans are working on increasing carbon capture plants, for example. Republicans also generally support nuclear power.

And on the left you have things like Gates' carbon scrubbing tech. The point is there are people on both sides taking the issue seriously between the right-wing "climate change deniers" and the left-wing "eliminate air travel, cows, and straws" factions which are basically worthless.

>Its bad optics having a poster child barely old enough to have a drivers license, and a Young New York Representative lead the charge ignorant what it would cost in our future.

Agreed. Democrats should be putting up climate scientists on panels, not hypocritical teens. The problem is that scientists are going to be specific...and the specifics are very complicated and involve lots of costs vs. benefits. An economist attempted this analysis and it's not an easy question to solve.

The most uncomfortable truth is that it's a problem that might not even be solvable. It's possible we've already reached the point of no return. Or maybe future generations will find a technological solution that reverses nearly everything. We can barely predict the weather...trying to predict future climates a hundred years in the future is hard.

We'll adapt or we won't. There are things we can do that may have an impact; support better carbon capture, especially of natural gas, improve nuclear tech, and find ways to pull emissions out of the atmosphere. And there are things that accomplish practically nothing; driving electric cars (usually charged from a nearby gas or coal power plant), solar/wind (produced using gas powered mining operations in Africa), banning meat (we'd still need lots of farming and meat agriculture is a small percentage of overall emissions), and banning straws (all consumer plastics are a tiny fraction of plastic waste).

What do we focus on? Cars, solar panels, meat, and straws. Those are things we can judge our neighbors on and do personally. They won't solve climate change, but they are things we can do to make ourselves feel better.