02-01-2021, 09:22 PM
davester wrote:
This is good, but 2050 is too distant a target. At that point we will likely be too late and runaway irreversible warming may have taken hold.
Yeah, there are some really bad feedback loops that could get going at any time (and could conceivably already be on an unstoppable spiral) and the chances of them happening get greater the more we heat things up. But if the American public doesn't want to make the changes necessary, then I would still push for getting as much remediation as is politically practicable. I'm afraid that is what we are headed towards - a Congressionally butchered version of Biden's plans that fall far long of a 2050 target.