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

[AverageJoe90]

36. I don't think you've really understood what I've been trying to say.

It isn't blinkered to disregard the depths to which we are capable of sinking.

Me neither. But I'm not so blinkered as to think that human extinction is really inevitable, or even really possible because of AGW alone, as some may believe, either.

My faith in humanity is based on our potential for good, on what could be--

Forgive me, but I haven't really seen that from you all that much.

OTOH you do not seem to accept that the worst-case scenarios are possible at all.

On the contrary, I've said over and over again that the worst case IS indeed possible; maybe not as likely as some may assume but still possible.

The higher the stakes involved, the greater the imperative to guard against less-likely scenarios.

Yes, but the thing is, I've never once disagreed with that.