Stanford Quantified the Cost of Delay on Carbon Removal. It's $10 Trillion.
Immediate carbon removal would eliminate all climate damages. Delay it 25 years and you only get half the benefit. That’s the headline finding from a new Stanford study published in Nature, and it’s the most powerful economic argument for CDR deployment I’ve seen. The researchers built a framework linking individual emissions to actual, quantifiable global damages. The numbers are staggering, specific, and uncomfortable. The damage ledger Since 1990, US emissions have caused $10 trillion in global damages. Not theoretical future costs — realized economic harm distributed across the planet: ...