«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal
of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the
Nature piece.
Then you might pick up on the a)
limited nature of the respondents to Dr Curry's
piece (i.e. few top researchers) and b) the personal attack mode most
of the responses took.
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