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Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet
Thomson Reuters Foundation News ^ | 7-26-2017 | Alister Doyle

Posted on 07/26/2017 2:59:28 PM PDT by plain talk

Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.

Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting the goals of the Paris climate deal to curb global warming that researchers blame for causing more heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels.

Climeworks reckons it now costs about $600 to extract a tonne of carbon dioxide from the air and the plant's full capacity due by the end of 2017 is only 900 tonnes a year. That's equivalent to the annual emissions of only 45 Americans.

And Climeworks sells the gas, at a loss, to nearby greenhouses as a fertiliser to grow tomatoes and cucumbers and has a partnership with carmaker Audi, which hopes to use carbon in greener fuels.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.trust.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; congame; fakescience; hoax; manbearpig
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To: plain talk

Back in the seventies when they were hollering about global cooling, some scientists were planning on blowing up glaciers or something in Alaska to warm the earth.


21 posted on 07/26/2017 3:41:12 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Fungi
Rabid buffoons....carbon dioxide is absolutely necessary for plant life. Without plants,no life on earth.

Isn't our atmosphere about 80 percent nitrogen, almost 20 percent oxygen, with less than 1 percent trace gasses? And of that, about 0.04 percent (four-hundredths of a percent) is CO2. So liberal buffoons want to reduce the mere 0.04 percent of CO2 and starve plant life on Earth. Madness I say!

22 posted on 07/26/2017 3:42:13 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: rightwingcrazy

God already owns it. Sorry.


23 posted on 07/26/2017 3:43:55 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it." Oh start)
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To: plain talk

They - the climate alarmists - consider what humans have done over the course of time as in affect “human engineering” and now they think we arrogant humans are so utopian perfect we can intentionally mess with the atmosphere in a supreme feat of human engineering, and nothing will possibly go wrong! Yea, right! Sometimes I think these climate “fixers” are worse than all the Al Gore climate alarmists.


24 posted on 07/26/2017 3:48:46 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: plain talk

These fools are really going to f**k things up. Not good to mess with nature.


25 posted on 07/26/2017 3:54:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: plain talk

$cientific $uck $tudy.


26 posted on 07/26/2017 3:55:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: beethovenfan

What does it take to be a “scientist” now-a-days? Must you be a lunatic??? I laugh at these morons.


27 posted on 07/26/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: plain talk

Dang, Shirley, Truly and Tricks are going to freeze to death and they were just starting to warm up ...


28 posted on 07/26/2017 3:58:58 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (There is no difference between liberals/moslems/lamestream)
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To: jimtorr
Climeworks removes CO2 from the air, and then sells it to be re-used... Is this insane...?

Quite insane. Especially when the article notes they sell it at a loss. This sounds like something Kramer would have come up with on the Seinfeld show. ;-)

29 posted on 07/26/2017 3:59:30 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: rightwingcrazy
"Commence Operation.......'VACU-SUCK'!"


30 posted on 07/26/2017 4:01:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: plain talk

These idiots are going to screw around, and get us all killed with their false science. Just ask any of them to prove there is such a thing as “global warming” much less “global warming caused by mankind, and all you get in return is some crap that would make up a piece of a puzzle, but never can they present the entire puzzle as it doesn’t exist. They all need to be in rubber rooms playing with themselves.


31 posted on 07/26/2017 4:03:05 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: plain talk

They dream up more and more outlandish ways to suck money out of their economies and create busywork jobs.

As long as they keep this idocy in Europe and burden their own economies it’s another WIN for president Trump.


32 posted on 07/26/2017 4:05:00 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: plain talk

How about planting a lot of trees? There used to be a holiday known as Arbor Day.


33 posted on 07/26/2017 4:06:37 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: plain talk
That's equivalent to the annual emissions of only 45 Americans.

From a $23 million dollar plant???!!!

They could quadruple the results by just going out and shooting a couple hundred ISIS or Al-Qaeda killers for an investment of a few hundred dollars a head.


34 posted on 07/26/2017 4:18:45 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
They could quadruple the results by just going out and shooting a couple hundred ISIS or Al-Qaeda killers for an investment of a few hundred dollars a head.

The rag-heads don't have the same standard of living as Americans so you would have to kill 10 times as many ISIS. Hey ... nothing wrong with that.

35 posted on 07/26/2017 4:23:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

HAHAHAHAHA! Oh. They’re series.

As long as my tax dollars don’t go towards this stupidity, more power to em


36 posted on 07/26/2017 4:25:41 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: GraceG
Buy an old depleted underground salt mine, grow trees and put the logs into the salt mines.

This is why I have never understood the environmentalist logic in recycling paper. Paper comes from trees that are planted as a crop. It is like recycling wheat. Bury the paper in a landfill and plant more trees.

37 posted on 07/26/2017 4:34:02 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: jimtorr
"The gas undoubtedly gets right back in the air in short order."


38 posted on 07/26/2017 4:52:51 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: plain talk

I’d LOVE to see the environmental impact statement on this sucker


39 posted on 07/26/2017 4:55:34 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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To: HLPhat

Herbert Marcuse.


40 posted on 07/26/2017 4:56:01 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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