Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "Engineering-based removal activities are technologically and economically unproven, especially at scale, and pose unknown environmental and social risks," it said.
57% : "Carbon capture will increase fossil fuel production, there's no doubt about it," said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.
45% : Even if hundreds more such plants were built, they would not come close to counteracting even 1 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions.
44% : And decades from now, even if the world is able to completely eliminate all new greenhouse gas emissions, many experts, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body convened by the United Nations, believe it will still be necessary to remove some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures.
42% : Last month, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, and Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, introduced legislation that would create additional tax incentives for the carbon dioxide removal industry.

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