"Another research leader suggested that—in private—some of the most senior figures in the field believe that the world is heading for a rise in temperature closer to six degrees than two."
Socially constructed silence? Protecting policymakers from the unthinkable / Jun 2016
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Articles prior to the Paris Agreement:
World on track for nearly 11-degree [F] temperature rise, energy expert says / 2011
World on course for catastrophic 6 deg. rise, reveal scientists / 2009