Vancouver Sun: In April 2009, the science journal Nature published a paper entitled Greenhouse-Gas Emission Targets for Limiting Global Warming to 2 C.
Its subject was the end of the modern world.
At the time, it attracted little notice. It was a half-dozen pages long. For laymen, its technical content was impenetrable.
The purpose of the paper -- researched and written by a team of European scientists headed by Malte Meinshausen, a climatologist with Germanys Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact -- was...