Posted on 06/13/2019 7:30:05 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Last month, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 415 parts per million, the highest in human history. Environmental experts say the world is increasingly on a path toward a climate crisis.
The most prominent efforts to prevent that crisis involve reducing carbon emissions. But another idea is also starting to gain traction — sucking all that carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.
It sounds like an idea plucked from science fiction, but the reality is that trees and plants already do it, breathing carbon dioxide and then depositing it via roots and decay into the soil. That’s why consumers and companies often “offset” their carbon emissions by planting carbon-sucking trees elsewhere in the world.
But an upstart company, Boston-based Indigo AG, now wants to transform farming practices so that agriculture becomes quite the opposite of what it is today — a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
By promoting techniques that increase the potential of agricultural land to suck in carbon, the backers of Indigo AG believe they can set the foundation for a major effort to stem climate change. On Wednesday, the company announced a new initiative with the ambitious goal of removing 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by paying farmers to modify their practices.
Called the Terraton Initiative (a “teraton” is a trillion tons), the company forecasts that the initiative will sign up 3,000 farmers globally with more than 1 million acres in 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, they can always inject it into oil producing areas to force out the oil I guess.
Burying a necessary plant nutrient where it cannot be used is not a good idea....................
A far greater crisis is our national loss of brain function.
Or they could split it into carbon and oxygen...................
Would burying all Leftists be enough?
In human history?!? Lying, hysterical hyperbole much?
“Burying a necessary plant nutrient where it cannot be used is not a good idea....................”
But wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier just to replant the rain forests in Brazil? I guess the other “solution” would be the “vehicle” that Al Capp proposed in his now long gone comic strip Lil’ Abner, that had a big funnel on the front that allowed it to suck up smog and exhaust clean air out the tailpipe. He never did however explain the chemistry involved.
LOL. Love that movie.
We don’t need to bury carbon, we need to bury communists.
And how much will all of this cost taxpayers?
How dare you question such esteemed and wise scientist as AOC, Algore, and your betters?
The politicization of science for tax and spend schemes to allow the elite to better control our every activity will be a historical stain on our generation. Dare I say it, it may be viewed in the future as another flat earth idea.
CO2 is a vital component of a healthy planet and the fact that it is now generally considered to be a pollutant is frightening.
Trillions of tons of trace gas ,LOL it’s also colorless ,sounds like a Super Scam
This: By promoting techniques that increase the potential of agricultural land to suck in carbon, the backers of Indigo AG believe they can set the foundation for a major effort to stem climate change. On Wednesday, the company announced a new initiative with the ambitious goal of removing 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by paying farmers to modify their practices. “
Lib speak, farmers are too good at feeding the world, we have to curtail their prolific harvests so people starve.
Calm Down, Take another Pill, have another hit off that pipe, everything is going to be just fine....
They really are becoming downright ridiculous.
It just dawned on me, that’s why they hate prosperity! When life is good people want to have children.
“Environmental experts say the world is increasingly on a path toward a climate crisis.”
Well if environmental experts say so, then it must be true...
Unsubstantiated assumption.
Yep, kinda like Underpants Gnomes..................
It’s like they’re going to terraform the planet.
Terraform it for who (or what), exactly, is the question.
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