I guess we now have another excuse to tell AlGore to go pound sand...
One useful definition of insanity might be: searching for solutions to non-problems.
Not only that, but I guarantee an unintended consequence would come from this.
...to pound limestone IN to sand...
These people scare the hell out of me. They have no idea what the Earth will do in two weeks, much less two years or two decades, but they want to lay waste to natural processes out of sheer chutzpah.
And if we then add Tequila...!
One pleasant side effect: pre-marinated sea bass.
Coral and shellfish remove calcium and CO2 from water to make their calcium carbonate shells.
Do clams have thicker or thinner shells lately?
New CCC effort.
Pick, shovel, donkey cart....
None of these idiots have studied the negative effect of “fixing” a non-problem.
Total lunacy, no matter how you slice it.
The lime will make the seafood taste better too!
I am buying up land in Bedford IN, the limestone capitol of the world!
Um... This is pretty stupid.
Lime is made by burning calcium carbonate which converts it to calcium oxide. Where in sam HECK do these “scientists” think the CARBON in the carbonate went in the first place?!
It was converted to CARBON DIOXIDE!!!! GAH!
Where did these people learn chemistry?
Finely divided calcium carbonate, sprinkled on a weak solution of carbon dioxide in water, has the same effect as roasting the calcium carbonate in the first place, GIVING UP the carbon dioxide to the air, then scattering the calcium oxide on the water. The calcium oxide then becomes calcium hydroxide, which reacts with the carbon dioxide dissolved in the water, forming - calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate goes on to form calcium BIcarbonate, which is freely soluble in water.
Which is exactly where we were by scattering the finely divided calcium carbonate on the water in the first place. Without the intermediary step of releasing the carbon dioxide to the air in the first place.
But, it does not matter. Carbon dioxide, whether in the water, or as part of the atmosphere, is converted by the action of sunlight and the presence of water, into carbohydrates and free oxygen, through the miracle of photosynthesis. This process has been going on since the planet was very young, when the atmosphere was made up of methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor and ammonia. The photosynthesis first broke down the water and carbon dioxide into free oxygen, and carbohydrates.
Now oxygen is a serious bad actor in any atmosphere. The oxygen acted on the ammonia, NH3, creating water and nitrogen, a relatively inert gas. Eventually, so much of the ammonia was converted to free nitrogen, now that one element alone constitutes some 78% of the atmosphere. Oxygen, which would not remain in a free state very long without the presence of green plants producing it, makes up some 21% of the atmosphere. At any given time, water vapor makes up from 1% to about 4% of the atmosphere (a VERY highly variable component of air, you might notice), and carbon dioxide, about 0.0455%, a number that varies over only a rather narrow range, and in fact, is almost the “suffocation” level for young, green, growing plants.
Know this and know it for a certainty: Carbon dioxide is plant food. Without it, plants wither and die. It is our OBLIGATION to increase carbon dioxide to the degree we are able, to aid our plant life on this planet to grow and extend to its maximum limit.
-OR- it could be a waste of lime..
My landscaping, especially my roses and geraniums, would really prefer the CO2 levels remain as they are - they’re very happy with the CO2 they’ve been getting and would really appreciate some more.
Some scientists were advocating shooting large doses of sulferic acid into the upper atmosphere a few years ago to provide the same reduction in CO2. I’m really thinking that we need to start locking these ‘scientists’ away in an isolation room ASAP to save ourselves from their ‘wisdom’.
Bu!!$!t
There ain't no crisis and it ain't CO2
But I'll play their silly game ...
Suppose we salt the ocean(s) ... how long before everything green on Planet Earth turns to grey?
I think we should stop posting these @$$hole articles.