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Carbon removal isn’t weird anymore. That worries scientists.
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It seems like if a company was actually going to try to remove all carbon that they emitted, it'd be a HELL of a lot easier to just capture emissions directly at the major sources and capture it then. For things like power plants and refineries that's a lot fewer sources to filter than the entire atmosphere.