Would removing CO2 from the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels have an immediate or longer term effect on our climate if at all?

Question

Ive read that our carbon emissions have basically started a cascade effect that we can’t limit now. IS this right or wrong?

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Answer 1

Let’s assume you did this over, say, 10 years “somehow”.

You would take CO2 out of two places: the air and the ocean. You would get immediate effevts on ocean pH, making the ocean pH rise (a good thing!) And you would get some air cooling immediately.

It would take longer for the heat to come out of the ocean.