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Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says (www.theguardian.com)
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10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

Problem is this part:

To achieve this through technological means, such as direct air capture, would require the construction of the world’s second biggest industry, after oil and gas, and require expenditures of about a trillion dollars a year, scientists said. It would need to be done alongside much more drastic emissions cuts and could also have unintended consequences.

That makes it incredibly unlikely that this kind of removal will be done.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Even if we set our global net emissions to 0 right now it's not gonna get colder again in our lives or the lives of the next 100 generations. The carbon was in the ground, we burnt it, now it's in the atmosphere as co2. To get it back down, we need negative net emissions aka co2 recapture.

And needless to say, getting our global net emissions anywhere close to 0 isn't even really in reach for the next 50 years, so if we can do recapture alongside reducing emissions that would probably be great. Particularly in the wealthy western nations that might reach at least nominal net 0 at some point in this century.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    yes indeed. but its about the wall of temperature increase we will soon hit.

    everyone will deal with elevated temps if the change is slow.

    Im not arguing against recapture. but IMO arguing about technologies wont help us if the system isnt in place.

    co2 tax and environment sensitive calculation (lookimg at you capitalism) is not at a place where we can even think of selecting technologies.

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