Activists Call It A ‘False Solution.’ But UN Scientists Say We Need To Suck Up CO2.
A firefighter yells while battling a forest fire in Greece. “We will fail to hit 1.5 degrees without CO2 removal,” said Julio Friedmann, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, referring to the threshold beyond which climate change is forecast to be devastating. One paper, published last summer by the University of Sheffield, suggested the technique could pull 2 gigatons of carbon per year at scale, equal to more than 500 coal plants’ annual emissions. At worst, it’s a distraction from reducing emissions — and plays right into the fossil fuel industry’s hands.” But the latest IPCC report shows “that is wrong,” said Michael Thompson, a research fellow at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. Fortunately we have time ― we just don’t have that much time.” Friedmann, the Columbia research scholar, compared carbon concentrations in the atmosphere to a ship taking on water, meaning carbon removal technology offers a way to escape to safety.
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