With the signs of global warming ever more evident and little international agreement on action, the time has come, says Prof. Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, to switch to a new approach – to develop technology to remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: to extract it as we do with mineral resources. Individual countries can get on with doing this, and corporations can look for ways to make the process a commercial one.

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