The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere
The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Sucking Carbon from the Air Becomes A Lead Strategy

Very bad strategy "no need to fix things ASAP, we can reverse it later". Not to mention that the massive amounts of energy need to come from somewhere.
I agree, but it's this or nothing, as of the past couple years. Halting emissions in a world where major petroleum producers are engaged in warfighting, alongside the rise of fascism, is untenable.
Fascists see not just hydrocarbons, but humans as a resource, to be used. You better believe they give no fucks about climate. Pain and suffering are considered good things. And besides, would global warming really hurt Russia's long term prospects?
If that's madness, I'd point out that sanity by our standards is not the direction of very recent times.
If we can't even reduce emissions, then we can 10x less remove CO2 directly. That is like a gambling addict trying to cure the addiction by playing a different addictive game in parallel, instead of playing the one game less and less.
I'd prefer we try anything and everything, to be honest. We're out of time for the luxury of waiting for the perfect solution.
Look at the MAC diagram here and then tell me we need to start with the least sensible thing first.
I think logically you need the same order of magnitude to remove CO2 from the atmosphere as you gained form burning the fossil fuels. But I'm not sure where the practical limit is.
The only solution that makes remotely sense is using large areas of the ocean where nothing grows anyway and have a fleet of hundreds of ships that seed out algae that grows, absorbs sunlight and CO2 and then rains down on the ocean floor to sequester the carbon. Otherwise we don't have the land, energy and resources and money to do any of this.
It does not make sense. Like replacing the light on your oven with an LED instead of the massive flood lights lighting up your castle. Look at the MAC diagram here to see what the low hanging fruits are and which fruits are so high up that no ladder reaches them.
Agree with you fully
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is fixing things ASAP. The alternative is leaving it in the atmosphere.
There's no chance that they can remove the yearly added CO2. If they were serious, net zero would be 2025
Look at the MAC diagram here and then tell me we need to start with the least sensible thing first.
The issue is not removing it or leaving it, it is not emitting even more and at growing rates on top of that.