The scientists, who have promised to deliver “policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive information” according to UN guidelines, obligingly said the 2.7°F goal was technically feasible but would “require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” Simply put, politicians asked them what it would take to do the almost impossible, and the scientists responded that this would require almost impossible policies.15 Yet, the report was presented in the media as evidence that we need to make urgent, extreme carbon-emission reductions. It would be a bit like asking the
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