Totally settled science: Dessler says Ringberg "consensus was that there are lots of legitimate ways to get ECS as high as 5°C"

Andrew Dessler on Twitter: ".@DavidWLea @ericsteig we talked about that at #ringberg15. 

Consensus was that there are lots of legitimate ways to get ECS as high as 5°C.

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