Why the energy industry is so invested in climate change denial | Bill McKibben | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

if we want to avoid utter, civilization-shaking disaster, many scientists have pointed to a two-degree rise in global temperatures as the most we could possibly deal with.

Flashback: Two degrees of junk science: James Hansen v. Phil Jones | JunkScience.com

Climategate’s Phil Jones too thinks that 2 degrees is too much climate change — but then he admitted in Climategate 2.0 the science behind his thinking:

I think [the 2-degree limit] is plucked out of thin air.