40 gigatonnes is just the "yearly deficit". That's just for carbon neutrality. We have put 2 teratons of carbon into the atmosphere since industrialization. Y

40 gigatonnes is just the "yearly deficit". That's just for carbon neutrality. We have put 2 teratons of carbon into the atmosphere since industrialization. Yes we probably don't need to remove all of that, but at least 1 teraton is probably a very good idea, by trees, olivine, seeding oceans, pumping into the ground (which I think eventually comes back out. This is kind of like the mainstream reporting on the budget deficit, which always concentrates on the YEARLY deficit (2.77 trillion) versus 129 trillion overall.