Another weapon to fight climate change? Put carbon back where we found it -- We’ll have to also remove carbon from the air -- Sequestration

National Geographic ^ | November 2023 | SAM HOWE VERHOVEK

[dennisw]

Getting to zero carbon emissions won’t save the world. We’ll have to also remove carbon from the air—a massive undertaking unlike anything we’ve ever done.

Scientists and entrepreneurs like Aradóttir are embarking on ambitious—and sometimes controversial—projects to remove carbon dioxide from ambient air and lock it away. In Arizona, an engineering professor shows me his “mechanical tree,” a single one of which he says may someday be able to do the work of a thousand regular trees in capturing and storing CO2. In Australia, a leading oceanographer tells me that seaweed is salvation, if only we’d help it grow in giant aqua-gardens of kelp and wakame that could harbor billions of tons of carbon dioxide.

Atop a university building in Zürich, an Uruguayan inventor with a gleam in his eye presents me with a small vial of fuel made from nothing but sunlight and air. That may be the most intriguing of all the forms of carbon capture I’ve come across

What these efforts have in common is that they are geared in the long run to drag downward a number that climate experts agree holds the key to the health of the planet. That number is the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, which for thousands of years had held stable at or a bit below 280 parts per million, until the industrial revolution kicked off in the middle of the 19th century. Today this critical number stands at some 420 parts per million—in other words, the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen roughly 50 percent since 1850.

Carbon-capture proponents say that their work—to capture the main driver of climate change, radically scaled up in coming decades—will help bring this number down.

[dennisw]

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[House Atreides]

STUPIDITY ABOUNDS!!

[Sacajaweau]

All those plants and trees and foods will not survive any carbon taken out of the air. It’s so stupid. It defies logic.

[bray]

Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems. Unfortunately their solutions cause real problems.

[DoodleBob]

Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[bk1000]

How are they so convinced of the evils of CO2? Let’s see them try to live without it. Can we not shut them up and move on?

[central_va]

insanity

[Tell It Right]

[Blennos]

The hoax that no shame. No thesis or proposal is too ridiculous for the Global Warming scam.

[butlerweave]

You can’t remove Carbon on a Carbon Based Planet ,LOL

[Blennos]

The hoax that has no shame. Fast typing. Slow brain.

[dennisw]

Carbon sequestration is the ultimate boondoggle. Trillions to be spent on government welfare payments to politically connected universities, carbon scientists, and all their gofers.

Already, the Biden regime is blowing a few hundred million on carbon sequestration schemes/demonstration projects that will never be able to be scaled up. Such as pumping CO2 deep underground. This Warmist greed and stupidity is giving me a headache....

[V_TWIN]

2nd greatest falsehood to ever be perpetrated on the world.

[BitWielder1]

How long before oxygen becomes the new enemy?

[Lurker]

These people are insane, dangerously insane. They’re a threat to themselves and others.

L

[central_va]

If they take the CO2 and pump under ground to frack oil, then I’m good with it.

[teeman8r]

the stupid... it burns!

[central_va]

There needs to be a new DSM-V diagnoses for Climate Related Mental Illness.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Man made climate change is a lie, or considering how many are making money off it, it is a con.

The primary engine for earth’s climate change is the Sun followed by the earth’s rotation, the moon and the oceans, seas, lakes and mountains.

None of which man can change. As far a putting “pollution” into the air I would suggest volcanoes put more pollution in the air then man’s industry can ever do.

While it is true man can pollute and change the micro climate in some areas (such as Mexico city or Los Angeles) having everyone drive an electric vehicle will not help Mexico or LA.