Sometimes in news reports about the increasing pace of climate change, you might see someone refer to a "temporary overshoot."
That means they're essentially admitting we now have zero chance of avoiding 1.5°C above baseline and little chance of staying under 2°C. But they use the word 'temporary' because they want you to believe that even if world temperatures do go that high, it will only be for a short time.
See, the plan is that by 2050 or so we will have invented some fancy new technology that will quickly and easily capture and remove a HUGE amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere — and somehow accomplish that without using an equivalent amount of fossil fuels to do it. It’ll be a green solution! Yay! We’re saved! 😃
No such technology exists, of course, nor is one likely ever to be invented. We might just as well hope to develop perpetual motion machines. 😕
However, by selling you on the idea that a temporary overshoot will be okay, that there's nothing to worry about, that our leaders have everything under control, they're allowed to carry on with Business As Usual.
This carbon capture 'solution' is just a capitalist scam, a snake-oil remedy concocted by the fossil fuel industry and their financiers to buy more time so they can continue making piles of money while trashing the planet.
