Why sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere can’t undo all the effects of climate change

A man and donkey walk through drying palm fronds. A man walks with his donkey in the Tafilalet oasis on October 27th, 2016, near Morocco’s southeastern oasis town of Erfoud, north of Er-Rissani in the Sahara Desert. The oasis is at risk of disappearing as the area is drying up due to global warming. | Photo by Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty Images

Sucking planet-heating carbon dioxide of the atmosphere doesn’t reverse all the effects of climate change, new research tells us. Carbon dioxide removal, as it’s called, can sound like science fiction — but many companies are already counting on it to undo some of the damage caused by their pollution.

Companies might try to prevent their greenhouse gas emissions altogether, or they might try to clean it up af...

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