But we are not looking at “a 1 or 2 °C temperature rise”. The current rate of emissions increase puts us on course for a 4°C rise by 2100, not levelling off until 2300 at 6 to 8°C.
To put that into the planetary context, the last ice age was only 4°C colder, but it put Boston under a mile of ice:
Feeling lucky, punk?