Socolow says about the National Geographic article:
I have given a similar talk about ten times, starting in December 2010, and this is the first time that I am aware of that anyone in the audience so misunderstood me.
Joe Romm talked to Socolow and posted Socolow's statement in full:
http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/18/socolow-wedges-deployment/Breaking: Socolow reaffirms 2004 ‘wedges’ paper, urges aggressive low-carbon deployment ASAP
Still asserts "existing technologies could affordably limit warming"
May 18, 2011
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I spoke to Socolow today at length, and he stands behind every word of that — including the carefully-worded title.
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You’d never know any of that from reading the false narrative industrial complex today. They jumped all over a piece in National Geographic News by a reporter who apparently heard a recent talk of Socolow’s, but perhaps didn’t quite understand precisely what Socolow meant.
Socolow was not disavowing his original analysis in the least — nor providing any comfort to the do-little breakthrough bunch. Quite the reverse. He thinks they are members of a “Cargo Cult” waiting for “pie in the sky” answers (see “The breakthrough technology illusion“).
Socolow sent me (and Revkin) a long reply to the various pieces published, which I reprint in full at the end.
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edit to add: letter contents removed at request of DU moderators, you'll have to go to climateprogress or revkin's blog to read it.