Has anyone asked this question: How much carbon dioxide would we need to remove from the air to counteract climate change? Answer: 20 billion tons of CO2 a year.
Humanity produces a staggering amount of CO2: 35 billion tons of it each year. In 2007 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology assessed the average American’s annual CO2 emissions is 20 metric tons. To “turn back the clock” on climate change, we would need to eliminate today’s emissions plus an enormous backlog. To reach 350 parts per million—the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1988—humans would need to eliminate more than 500 billion tons in emissions. To get the atmosphere back to where it was before humans began to burn fossil fuels en masse would mean eliminating about 900 billion tons!
If all Americans ( 334,233,854) would eliminate half—10 metric tons—of their annual emissions, that would only be 3,342,338,540 metric tons! They are lying to us!
“Humanity produces a staggering amount of CO2: 35 billion tons of it each year....To “turn back the clock” on climate change ....to reach 350 parts per million—the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1988—”
I wish these folks would compare apples to apples. What is 350 ppm in tons? (Or - what is 35 billion tons in ppm?)
Found it:
“Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year...”
And how many tons of CO2 are produced by your AVERAGE Iceland or Ring of Fire VOLCANO?
Should we plug up all the volcanos with bodies of LIBERALS?