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We have CO2 measurements going back to 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve Just going back to the CO2
by lozenge 6y ago
We have CO2 measurements going back to 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve
Just going back to the CO2 level of 15 years ago " would be equivalent to the stone in 165,000 Empire State buildings or 66,000 Great Pyramids of Giza...a cost of $28 trillion for the United States, about $90,000 per individual" so there's no chance we'll accidentally remove too much! Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081648#s6 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- ip26 6y agofwiw, this assumes a $500 price per ton to remove the carbon. Currently it sounds like several different technologies think they might be able to get it below $100/ton, which would significantly improve the cost outlook. Though, you are completely right, even then it's still far too expensive to accidentally remove way too much.