Global efforts to reduce pollution will not be enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. We will also need to extract over 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year for the next century. However, currently only two gigatons are being removed annually, so we have to rapidly scale up existing methods or come up with new ideas.
We’re way too far up the hockey stick for something like this to save us.
They would need to also build a time machine and start sinking these billions of tons of carbon all the way back in the 70’s for it to be even remotely effective now.
(This graph is outdated already, I only downloaded it a few month ago. That line is even steeper now on quite a few projections.)