Blaming them for the lack of progress in cutting global emissions (despite some success in some countries) is hugely unfair giving that 'mainstream climate scientists' have been saying (shouting!) since the 1980s that we needed to cut CO2 emissions.

Yep. I just recently rewatched Carl Sagan’s 1985 testimony to Congress.

honestly, for the interested global heating by humans and the main consequences were already clear in the 70's, so this debate is somewhat strange - since than, no major forces followed scientific advice indeed #climatecrisis

I think you missed Prof X's lecture where we were taught mind control. It was immediately after the one where we learned to control hurricanes. In fairness, calling 1.6C-peak pathways 1.5C is a jedi mind trick, but the essay would read differently if it had to denote how much overshoot it means.

Thanks Gavin, as another mainstream scientist who's paper is actually being cited in this piece, I can only fully concur and it is unfortunate to see our study being misrepresented in this piece. In our study we highlight the risk of being overconfidence in overshoot and ...