The 3 July 2015 issue of Science features a remarkable editorial by Editor Marcia McNutt.  Titled “The beyond-two-degree inferno,” it suggests that an anthropogenic greenhouse (GH) warming of more than 2 degrees C (global average) will literally cause hell on earth, unless we can all agree to reduce emissions of the “infernal” GH-gas carbon dioxide – preferably before or at a UN-sponsored mega-confab in Paris in December.  This much-hyped event, to be attended by nearly 200 national delegations and thousands of hangers-on, has even been endorsed in a papal encyclical, referred to, somewhat irreverently, as a “Pope-sicle” by my Virginia colleague Dr Charles Battig. McNutt’s editorial claims a “global threat to food supplies, health, ecosystem services, and the general viability of the planet.”  Yet none of these threats are supported by any scientific evidence -- even from the usually alarmist UN-IPCC. ...(Read Full Article)