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  "tags": [
    "Consensus",
    "RCP 8.5 Science Fiction",
    "RCP 8.5 retirement",
    "Riahi et al",
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  "textContent": "The spherical cow has its place. The trouble begins when the spherical cow is wheeled out of the lab and presented to the public as if it were a real cow, and then wheeled into the Federal Reserve and presented to bank regulators as the cow you should be valuing your loan book against, and then wheeled into a federal courthouse and presented to a judge as the cow whose damages an energy company should be required to pay.\n\nThe post RCP 8.5: When the Spherical Cows Escape the Barn appeared first on Watts Up With That?.",
  "title": "RCP 8.5: When the Spherical Cows Escape the Barn"
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