Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism

Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?

No :)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines?wprov=sfla1
- So your answer is "Yes"?
  
  As the wikipedia article cites peer reviewed study (see study tab) that even though these kind of headlines make up only ~ 2 % of all hesdlines 44 % of them answer "yes", and only 22 % answer "no" with the rest being indecisive.
  
  Somehow you read all that and missed the first sentence.
  
  Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
  
  I think studies that look at the article's response are going to give a very different outcome than the real world result. The heuristic exists because a lot of news is overhyped halfsense trying to generate clicks (or draw eyeballs in the pre-digital world). So even if the article suggests a yes answer, a no outcome is still probably more likely.
Trees
- No Canadian should be delusional enough to think their country's forestry is even cutting carbon emissions. There's a problem with first world energy use here
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe
  
  Funny because the guardian insisted for years that carbon capture is our only hope, meanwhile China was the only country cutting emissions despite manufacturing everything anyone on earth demanded

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