Generally excellent post, but it also reveals why it was a mistake to call RCP8.5 “misleading.”
“The damages projected in these earlier climate simulations remain very much in play.”
This means there is legitimate research to be done w high forcing pathways, whatever the scenario underneath.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
Two things can be true:
• RCP8.5 was never a realistic "business as usual" scenario
• The world has made real progress bending the emissions curve down
Glen Peters, Piers Forster, and I explain in a new article: www.theclimatebrink....
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We should celebrate progress, but not overstate it
