By 2050, in President-elect Joe Biden’s vision of the country — even more ambitious than what the Obama administration proposed — the United States would no longer be putting greenhouse gases into the air. There is just no other way to finally get climate change under control. Think of them as being sort of where wind and solar were several decades ago, as Jenkins puts it. All of this is hard to account for in any fixed way but is likely to make any transition slower. But of course, the United States will not get to net zero in precisely the ways described in the report, Jenkins acknowledged, nor is it likely to get there precisely in 2050.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2020 20:36 UTC