Actual Carbon Emissions vs. IPCC Scenarios - how far away is safety?

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33. I briefly told you what

As for your "realism", putting Toba on a par with worst-case AGW doesn't fly.

I do hate to say this, but your opinions as expressed here are kinda similar to operating on faith, just in the opposite direction.

My faith in humanity is based on our potential for good, on what could be-- It isn't blinkered to disregard the depths to which we are capable of sinking.

OTOH you do not seem to accept that the worst-case scenarios are possible at all. Worse still, that denial emanates from your sense of political realism.

I've seen you mention the Precautionary Principle but I don't think you quite know what it entails: The higher the stakes involved, the greater the imperative to guard against less-likely scenarios.