Nonsense. 8.5 is one of a range of projections. It's science -- doing models based on a range of projections. If it scares you, that's on you.
What do you base that on?
What Anthony Watts is, is a wingnut blogger. He has no education in climatology, geophysics, meteorology, or any relevant field of science. In fact, he has no degree at all, having washed out of college. He was just an on-air weatherman (basically, a brainless spokes-model for national weather service information).
What makes you think that?
Of course you can't take me seriously -- I'm speaking heresy, from your perspective deep within the cult of climate denial. Such heresy cannot be taken seriously, or it would undermine the shallow foundations of your faith. But the reality is Watts is a man with no credentials or training in the topic of climatology or any related field, who was an obscure dropout and on-air personality presenting the weather until he became a cult figure among denialists for hosting the most infamous of the anti-science climate blogs. His contributions to the debate are garbage. Nearly every time I've bothered to read one of his mindless propaganda offerings, I immediately spotted a huge error, which I was going to point out in the comments section before noticing that others had already immediately spotted his fuck up and pointed it out to him. He's wrong with such consistency that it's almost like he's intentionally parodying the denialist cult by playing a clueless member -- kind of the way the old Stephen Colbert show made fun of wingnuts from the character of a wingnut.