Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial

Depending on whom you ask, the climate agreement that just came out of the COP28 conference is either an upset—having been agreed on in the United Arab Emirates, a petrostate—or a disappointment, or maybe something in between. (Climate change is complicated—and climate politics more so.) Regardless, for the first time ever, nations have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. It’s not as ambitious as agreeing on a phase-out of those fuels, but it’s at least a path toward decarbonization.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has for years pleaded that humanity needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases or else face ever-worsening climate disasters. But the IPCC has also

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