At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter for the climate| The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at pace needed to have a significant role in meeting climate targets
1y 21d ago by slrpnk.net/u/wolfyvegan in cdr@slrpnk.net from www.newscientist.com
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I find the following part to be very illuminating
Yet a million tonnes – or even the full 28 million tonnes that have been purchased to date – is negligible in terms of impact on the climate. At current emissions levels, removing a million tonnes is like undoing 13 minutes out of a full year of emissions,