The goal of Biden's Climate Change Plan is to limit global avg. temp rise to 1.5 degree C

[Kaleva]

"The target is consistent with the President’s goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050 and of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as the science demands. "

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/

However:

"UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024

GENEVA -- The world could see annual global temperatures pass a key threshold for the first time in the coming five years, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday.

The World Meteorological Organization said forecasts suggest there's a 20% chance that global temperatures will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average in at least one year between 2020 and 2024.

The 1.5 C mark is the level countries agreed to cap global warming at in the 2015 Paris accord. While a new annual high might be followed by several years with lower average temperatures, breaking that threshold would be seen as further evidence that international efforts to curb climate change aren't working.

“It shows how close we’re getting to what the Paris Agreement is trying to prevent,” said Maxx Dilley, director of climate services at the World Meteorological Organization."

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/world-hit-15-degree-warming-threshold-years-71687896

I for one believe that efforts to combat climate change will fail and a number of us here at DU will be around when it gets biblical.

[roamer65]

1. I see only one way it's even remotely achievable.

Population reduction.

By 2035, I think it’s going to painfully obvious that it’s way too late.

[JanMichael]

3. I'm hoping 2070 when I'm 102. But yes 2035 is going to suck.

And we'll have the same people saying oh everything's fine it's just seasonal.

[Mister Ed]

6. Well, population reduction is sure to happen.

Might happen one way, might happen another. Might happen sooner, might happen later. But the grim reality is that it's sure to happen.

[roamer65]

8. Bingo.

War and/or climate change.

[Ruby Zee]

2. Grateful I don't have kids

So many people in my neighborhood still having babies like nothing earth shattering is going on.

[roamer65]

5. Ditto.

+1000

[Kaleva]

7. My wife and I will be depending on the younger members of the family for survival

[Hortensis]

4. Tragically, it's already biblical for many in the Middle East. Central America.

South America. Africa. South Asian. SE Asia. Etc.

We've already failed to combat climate change as various important points have been passed, though what efforts we've made have had some, too small effect. Future efforts will inevitably, of necessity, become bigger.

Just as they already have. It's not long since by far most people in this nation were not concerned. Virtually every provision of our big infrastructure bills involves ways of battling climate change, working to create an integrated synergy through the whole.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. If the world gets its act together,

we can prevent worse-case scenario of 4 degrees Celsius or higher (we need to keep it under 2, really, 1.5 isn’t gonna happen) but we must act and soon. Besides mitigation, we should also work on adaptation.

[Kaleva]

10. I agree it should be a two prong approach

Mitigation and adaption. Because if mitigation fails, which I believe is very likely to happen, and there was no effort at adaption, the situation will become catastrophic for 100's of millions around the world.