Global heating is now at about 1.4C.

That depends on how far back you extend your running average. If you look at just the last few years, the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target has come and gone.

The report does offer some hope, saying there are likely “positive tipping points” in society – such as with electric vehicle adoption – that could also have runaway effects to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Electric vehicles won’t do much unless the underlying electricity generation switches to clean energy sources. That does seem to be the trend, but claiming that electric vehicles alone will offer a solution is misleading. If anything, the reduced aerosol emissions resulting from electric vehicle adoption and non-combustion sources of electricity could make the problem worse in the short term. Stopping fossil fuel use too quickly would actually be suicidal, and so GHG emissions reductions must come from other sectors. One industry in particular seems like a reasonable target…