Yeah, people think these types of things are blown up and manipulated as if the scientists actually make a buck out of it versus their usually very meagre salary and huge workload,
Someone I know who used to work for a non-specific policy related group of scientists investigating something pretty important (pollution, the kind that gives your kids fucked up lungs not something relatively abstract like global warming) and that he was explicitly told (in response to a warning their data looked bad for the government) "That's awful, we must do something about it, in the meantime please lower the figure"
From a different viewpoint, these scientists are just trying to shut down companies and have employees lose their jobs by making things too expensive because the happen to pollute "a little". So intead of polluter pays, consumer pays after the prices get raised to compensate the expense of the polluter fines/taxes, the equipment upgrade to reduce emissions, etc.
If the damn scientists would just shut up already, everything would be fine! /s
If you tax the carbon then the market will adjust by favouring more efficient products. If poor people can't afford them then that's a different societal issue which is not being caused by a relatively small tax.
Someone I know who used to work for a non-specific policy related group of scientists investigating something pretty important (pollution, the kind that gives your kids fucked up lungs not something relatively abstract like global warming) and that he was explicitly told (in response to a warning their data looked bad for the government) "That's awful, we must do something about it, in the meantime please lower the figure"