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Its really frustrating that scientists have been as un-alarmist and conservative as possible with their estimates and all their models to avoid being written off as unserious and a bunch of people who don't understand that science really trys to avoid definitive statements have used that to simultaneously argue it won't be that bad and they're a bunch of crazy alarmists.
2010: Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 degrees C is a worst case scenario and very unrealistic
2020: we are tracking RCP 8.5 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2007117117