That's the message one researcher has for the planet's physicians, the climate scientists who are diagnosing whether a new international agreement can keep us from busting the
boundary of dangerous global warming.
For years now, I've been exploring whether words alone, without a calamitous kick from nature, can jog humanity to cut short its long love affair with fossil fuels for the sake of limiting the
odds of dangerous global warming.
To minimize the
risk of dangerous global warming, some scientists suggest keeping concentrations of heattrapping emissions in the atmosphere below 450 parts per million (CO2 equivalent).
Armstrong issued his challenge based on the knowledge that
predictions of dangerous global warming were the product of methods that violated 72 of 89 forecasting principles relevant to the forecasting problem.