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Triage in the greenhouse

The path towards mitigating global warming is going to be tortuous. Capturing carbon dioxide and pumping it directly into the deep ocean to avoid atmospheric build-up is an option that has been dismissed prematurely.

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Figure 1: Caricature of an approach to planetary preservation, involving exclusively local environmental advocacy.

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Keeling, R. Triage in the greenhouse. Nature Geosci 2, 820–822 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo701

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