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

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39. What a bunch of sloppy posturing

I don't have to sign up with your exceptionalist denialism in order to have hope. Go ahead and elide possibility with inevitability to make your "point". But don't think that people won't notice; You are at odds with many here in pushing your idea of what is politically acceptable like some 1950s consensus of nuclear war.

Humans are adapted to surviving ice ages, not hothouses, and the projected warming will be too quick for us to physiologically adapt-- those are facts. With so much other life perishing from under us, we would have to acknowledge the possibility of our own demise. We are not so different from other animals that we can count on escaping all of the unintended consequences where they do not.

As such, the Precautionary Principle places the burden of proof with those who insist on ruling out human extinction.