The reaction to this development on twitter and other places is fascinating. Many people are clearly upset that C02 capture at scale is likely to become economically viable.
My god, I know we can't qualify absolutely everything we say, but I feel like you need some error bars on those predictions. Actually that is an understatement. It is wildly speculative to talk about GDP proportions and technological solutions in 80 years time.
See this paper on what it means.
https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/r...
The key thing is that in 2100 to keep C02 ppm at 450 ppm it would cost 0.6 % of global GDP.
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The reaction to this development on twitter and other places is fascinating. Many people are clearly upset that C02 capture at scale is likely to become economically viable.