Innovation comes long before "the science". No one can predict innovation, but we can nurture it. Some engineers incrementally improved sailboats into the clipper ship, new engineers came to the fore to develop the steam engine, the electrical engine...
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The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity