Guardian:
Unfortunately, Professor Bob Watson is not speaking out of turn in telling the world to prepare for four degrees of global warming. “Mitigate for two degrees; adapt for four” has long been the catchphrase among climate negotiators and campaigners. Translated, that means: try to reduce emissions to stay below two degrees of warming, but also prepare for the worst. And Bob Watson should know – he is the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …