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Could Aggressive Climate Targets Backfire? / Michael Levi, Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations, 2/11/2011http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2011/11/02/could-agressive-climate-targets-backfire/For the past several years, international climate diplomacy has been focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions deeply enough to keep global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees centigrade.  In private, many experts and diplomats have acknowledged that that goal might be unrealistic. In public, though, pretty much everyone presented a more optimistic face...