Removal Valley

DRAFT — FIRST PASS

A low-poly carbon dioxide removal tycoon sim — run the world from 2026 to 2100 and see what carbon dioxide removal can (and can't) do to the temperature.

Year2026 Warming+1.40°C CO₂425 ppm Net CO₂ flow+40 Gt/yr Removal2.2 Gt/yr Sea level+0 cm
● CO₂ emitted  ● captured carbon to storage · ocean rebound

Warming since pre-industrial

Your run · dashed guides at +1.5° and +2.0° · hover for values

Removal build-out

Removal at work (Gt/yr) · ◆ 8.8 needed by 2050 for 1.5°C

Scenario

Picking a scenario resets the world to 2026 and runs it immediately — pause any time. Moving a slider switches you to Custom (and resets if a run was underway). Removal keeps scaling ~1.7× from 2050 to 2100; hard-to-abate residual: 5 Gt/yr. “Current ambition” follows the Targets & Pledges scenarios (5.9 Gt/yr by 2050) — countries’ explicit pledges add up to just 3.6. “Current performance” follows policies as implemented (CAT: ~2.6°C by 2100) — emissions rise into the 2030s and the sliders don’t apply.

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    Decadal data table
    YearGross GtRemoval GtNet Gt°Cppm