Reply #2: Well...

[Dead_Parrot]

1c Increase
Ice-free sea absorbs more heat and accelerates global warming; fresh water lost from a third of the world's surface; low-lying coastlines flooded

2c Increase
Europeans dying of heatstroke; forests ravaged by fire; stressed plants beginning to emit carbon rather than absorbing it...


"optimistic" is the word that springs to mind - why wait for 2 degrees when you can have it now? Although I'm not sure about "methane fireballs racing across the globe with the power of atomic bombs; only fungi survive". I think they've been at the extra-special mushroom soup.