Carbon Dioxide Removal

Here’s a scholarly article in Science Magazine that addresses the challenges our civilization faces in pulling CO2 out of the Earth’s atmosphere once greenhouse gases are released. It begins by admitting that we seem to be incapable of reducing current emissions to a safe level, and that the net-zero goals set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can only be achieved with CO2 removal.

To me, this translates as: “In the 2020s, we are incapable of accomplishing what is relatively easy, so here is what we need to do in the future, which, by constrast, seems impossibly difficult.”