Scientists and governments agree: There’s so much carbon dioxide in the air right now that to avoid the worst effects of global warming, the world can’t just stop polluting. It needs to take the greenhouse gas that’s already in our atmosphere out.
Brett Dahlberg with IEEE Spectrum reports.
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