What happens to all the plants?
Asking for a friend.
“What happens to all the plants?”
Nothing the oceans are at equilibrium with the air and hold 150 times as much CO2 by mass for every cubic meter of each. We are at 440 ish ppm it varies by the season up from 180 ppm even if humans could strip all 37 billion per year out the oceans will outgas an equal amount until a new equilibrium is established it will take 200+ years of removals to even out a dent in total ppm down to 200-180 levels even then that’s where we started at C3/4 plants will be fine they evolved during a period of 150ppm. C4 plants are what we eat rice,corn,wheat,barley all C4 and all evolved during much lower CO2 than now. Sleep well and bask in the gentle warmth of the CO2 greenhouse effect.
Seems a waste for a valuable industrial chemical. Iceland has lots of geothermal and hydropower cheap too. They could use the CO2 plus water and off peak electricity to make a slew of fuels(alcohols,kerosene,petrol) chemicals(ethylene,butane,propene)or sugars/proteins/lipids using power to X technology. CO2 provides needed carbon atom and the water plus electrons the hydrogen and Gibbs energy.
What happens to all the plants?
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They will be eliminated as they are made of carbon and hold lots of CO2. Plants are bad for humans, eat insects instead
If significant C02 is removed plants will die off and their production of essential Oxygen for life will be reduced. The intent of this “scrubbing” is to reduce life of every kind. Get rid of people— excepting them of course.