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LAST OCTOBER, scholars David Victor and Michael Kennel cast doubt on the linchpin of climate diplomacy: the 2-degree Celsius rise in temperatures that international agreements have cited as the threshold for severe, irreversible effects of global warming. A number is a fundamentally useless measure, the duo wrote in Nature—political theater. The FP climate change issue shows that the actual drama of global warming can’t be adequately expressed in figures. Kenneth R. Weiss profiles a man who, inadvertently, became the face of a new brand of refugee; McKenzie Funk explores how computer hackers have undermined cap and trade; and FP’s Keith Johnson illustrates why big, bad coal may still be the fuel of the future. At this year’s U.N. climate conference in Paris, progress could be made on an international framework…

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Foreign Policy (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2015

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