Climate Appeasement?

Vulcanologist Bill McGuire (University College London) has just published a book 'Hothouse Earth' (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/total-climate-meltdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe). Most climate experts maintain that humans still have a little time left to drive down 'greenhouse gas' emissions to avoid a 'perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown'. McGuire says we have zero chance of doing this. He also claims that many climate scientists are much more scared about the future, than they will publically admit. He calls this 'climate appeasement'. McGuire notes that we can already see what's happening now with global heating having reached just over one degree Centigrade above pre-Industrial levels! Global heating, he claims, could easily get to 3 degrees Centigrade above pre-Industrial levels. This really would be extremely serious. At the same time, a UK Member of Parliament (MP) of the current ruling party, is being paid almost £47k a year for his second job with Texas-based Linden Energy (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/31/tory-mp-mark-pritchard-linden-energy-climate-fossil-fuel-firm). That US fossil fuel company also concludes it's virtually impossible to avoid a 2 degrees Centigrade 'warming', by 2050. Their conclusion is 'why bother trying' but let's extract and burn more gas. Gas the claim is cleaner than coal and oil. True but it still generates substantial 'greenhouse gas' emissions. I guess some people (including the MP recruited to push Linden's line) will take the money, no matter how tainted. I can see why McGuire is somewhat pessimistic.