AI Trained on 13,000 Virtual Worlds Predicts Renewable Energy Future /. Onshore wind is likely to account for about 25% of global electricity supply in 2050, and solar for about 20%. These figures are consistent with limiting warming to 2°C but not 1.5°C. However, 1.5ºC is still possible

NO – there is no future in which limiting global warming to +1.5C is possible.

We are nearly at +1.5C now .. the graph is going up and to the right, increasing at +0.3C per decade, and we are at maximum CO2 burn in our history.

We will be at around +2C by 2040 .. its not far away.

The other thing that most people dont think about, is that even once we get to net-zero, the CO2 in the air remains for a long time. Lets say we pulled out all the stops and reached net-zero by 2050, great progress .. BUT that would be MAX-CO2 and that >2C heat would REMAIN .. it is an era of PEAK-HEAT.

We need to urgently look at ways to bring the heat down by geo-engineering. SRM or solar radiation management by releasing particulates, is one way we know that works and is economically feasible – ie. putting particulates into the air to increase cloud cover over the oceans so light is reflected before the sea absorbs the heat .. inducing a temporary cooling effect to mute the peak heat.

Removing CO2 is very slow and costly and energy inefficient – it would need to be millions of times more efficient to make a dent. [ The reason is entropy, basically – it is like sifting the sand on the beach to remove the black grains .. much harder than taking the black grains and spreading them around. ]

We geo-engineered ourselves into this mess by burning carbon chains for energy the past 150 years.. and sad to say, but we will need to geo-engineer our way out of it – our survival as a species depends on it.

Even if we get fusion reactors next Tuesday and deep drill geothermal next Friday, and a leftist government decides to fund wind and solar in the states in 2028, and make petrol cars illegal … we still will have the peak heat issue to deal with.