Eli Kintisch at Science has a nice overview of my forthcoming paper on air capture, as well as some interesting commentary on the technology over at Science Insider. An excerpt:

Pielke is not suggesting that the world should avoid mitigating emissions of carbon dioxide between now and 2050. “We should be trying all forms of mitigation as fast as we can,” he says. Many scientists fear that rapidly accelerating global warming, long before the atmospheric level of CO2 reaches 450 ppm, could lead to devastating sudden shifts in the world climate, so Pielke knows it could be foolish to wait. But he thinks his work shows that air capture should “at a minimum … receive the same detailed analysis as other approaches to mitigation.” No government is funding research into the technique on any significant level; the handful of scientists who are studying the method are mostly using private funds. It’s a backstop, he says, that humanity has yet to develop. Whether or not talking about air capture will dull efforts to mitigate global warming is another story.

Do read the whole article.