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.
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The hoax continues.
The Dems are no better regarding this CO2 thing.
What could possibly go wrong.....
Society is regressing rapidly. I used to laugh at this but now its just scary.
Idiocracy is a documentary.
It is a scam.
Probably the startup in Boston is all engineers from India.
A full 30% of those I worked with at Intel had some sort of scam going on the side.
Many of them were H1b companies they would run to feed people into high tech.
ROTFLMAO
Are the tariffs against China helping to lower carbon emissions by reducing Chinese production/pollution?
Maybe every liberal should hold their breath??
So they do not want a green planet ? Looks like brown is their color.
NASA Declares Carbon Dioxide Is Greening The Earth
5/2/2019, 8:38:28 AM · by Enlightened1 · 62 replies
Infowars ^ | 04/26/19 | Mike Adams
In direct contradiction to the scare stories about carbon dioxide being relentlessly pushed by the climate change alarmists, a scientific study published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by NASA reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are having a tremendously positive impact on the re-greening of planet Earth over the last three decades, with some regions experiencing over a 50% increase in plant life.The study, entitled, “Greening of the Earth and its drivers,†used satellite data to track and map the expansion of green plant growth across the globe from 1982 – 2015. Published in 2016, this study found that rising atmospheric carbon...
They want control of the world, they hate that Donald Trump has Made America Great Again, they hate religion, they hate that the USA can feed itself, they especially hate Christianity because they need government to be god to the people.
The USSR would be standing proudly as a communist nation if they had been able to use their system to feed their people.
Oh, yes, there is that other little bugaboo that libs hate, we are armed and we know how to use them.
Why not plant a forrest of trees to absorb the CO2 rather than build a forrest of windmills
...and watch the forests die.
We already do this. Much of our trash that gets buried in landfills is carbon.
They’ve tried this in the UK. Result: For some stupid reason CO2, which is heavier than air, tends to find a way out of the hole you put it in. More often then not, it finds its way back to the surface through aquifers.
Animals come to the pond, lake, stream, etc to take a drink, start feeling a little woozy, and then bye bye forever. Livestock deaths in the UK due to this boneheaded play were numerous.
Let’s put a dome over the Washington Post building and pump all the CO2 inside.
Yep. Another 20 years into this Grand Solar Minimum, and today’s Millennials will be praying for global warming. It’ll be so ironic.
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