The Carbon Removal Industry Is Already Lagging Behind Where It Needs to Be

The Carbon Removal Industry Is Already Lagging Behind Where It Needs to Be

It may be time to suck it up — and we don't just mean the carbon in the atmosphere.  No, we're talking about reckoning with the possibility that our attempts at capturing the greenhouse gas to stave off climate disaster are already hopelessly behind schedule, New Scientist reports, if they're not in vain entirely. To illustrate, here're some simple numbers. The CO2 removal industry expects to hit a milestone of removing one million metric tons o…

At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter for the climate - Los Angeles Weekly Times

If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, carbon dioxide removal won’t make a difference YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images The nascent carbon dioxide removal industry expects to hit a milestone this year: 1 million tonnes of planet-warming CO2 removed from the atmosphere. That certainly is progress, but things aren’t moving anywhere near quickly enough to remove the billions of tonnes of carbon researchers say we need to capture annually in …