Could the 2°C climate target be completely wrong?

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The global warming goal that nearly 200 governments have agreed on should be ditched, say scientists writing in Nature

In a nondescript conference centre five years ago, as temperatures fell to freezing outside in the streets of Copenhagen and protesters gathered, world leaders did something remarkable: they put a limit...

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