I am “using Emanuel for support” for the contention I have that we do not know much about what will actually happen with climate change. We may have a guess that it will be catastrophic, and we may think it’s prudent to avoid that if we can. But we do not know.
I leave it to anyone reading the quote to decide how accurate that interpretation is:
“…(We) should also be wary of our own collective ignorance of how the climate system works. Perhaps negative feedback systems that we have not contemplated or underestimated will kick in, sparing us debilitating consequences. On the other hand, little understood or positive feedbacks might make matters worse than we expect. We are humbled by a sense of ignorance…We know as little about the consequences of our actions as Phaeton did when he took the reins of his father’s chariot.”
If Emanuel, or anyone else, has something different to say elsewhere about how confident we are that disaster will occur, feel free to quote it. It seems a bit imbecilic to me to pretend he didn’t say here what I just finished quoting.
Like most Alarmists, you see the AGW world through the same sort of glasses Jonathan Edward had on when he preached “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God.”
For the same reason, I don’t think your message for change will be effective. It’s a bit over the top, and hell is a bit too nebulous.
But we’ll see.
I think other concerns–even environmental ones–will push ACC off the radar unless a series of warm-direction disasters start showing up. For example, this week air quality in Paris has been horrible. And some fun stories in Germany about how burning wood is crapping up the air (even though it’s been labeled ACC-friendly). As these and other items come to the front, people are going to wonder what all their anti-AGW efforts are actually buying them.
(I get it, by the way, that anything too cold is “weather” while hot things are climate. 
My point is that every winter like the one the US midwest just had moves Joe Public a little further away from acting Right Now. I’m not interested in arguing about whether or not a polar vortex meander is ACC, weather variation, or whatever…it’s irrelevant to the point I’m making, which you have repeatedly been unable to grasp.)