Man, when the wheels come off, they come off in a most spectacular fashion, don’t they. This is a huge train wreck, as the whole premise for a brand-new form of taxation and “reform” go up in smoke and flame.
Carbon dioxide is not, and never was, a “pollutant”. Yet that is the data upon which they were going to hang their hats. Because of the very nature of carbon dioxide (it is a heavy gas, as compared to oxygen and nitrogen, and it dissolves readily in water), and the fact it is continuously taken up by living growing green plants, its concentration in the atmosphere will not ever get much above about 500 parts per million, Because plants grow so much more luxuriantly at that concentration, they soon reduce the atmospheric level to well below that figure. And surprise, surprise, that luxuriant growth is NOT confined to terrestrial plants, but occurs in submarine and surface waters as well.
With all this organic growth going on, there is the reverse, as plants die and decompose, of releasing back to the atmosphere and the oceanic stretches most if not all of the carbon dioxide taken up by the synthesis of free oxygen and various forms of carbohydrates. What little bit mankind contributes, through the burning of fossil fuel, is quickly absorbed and put in this never-ending cycle, and it does not make a blip on the average content of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The anthropogenic CO2 could all be collected, cooled, compressed, and injected into the earth as a supercritical liquid, where it proceeds to continue to carry on reactions with the various metellic elements, converting them to oxides and forming elemental carbon, the basis for coal and petroleum formation. As the oxygen in water and carbon dioxide is abstracted by the formation of oxides by these metallic elements, the conditions are right for the formation of hydrocarbons.
Petroleum and natural gas are being continuously formed, replacing the “depleted” wells, and in fact may be forming at a rate much greater than previously considered possible. There is the heat from the earth’s core to drive these reactions, and a huge supply of elemental silicon, the probable “metallic” element that takes up the majority of the oxygen released from the carbon dioxide and water.
The silicon dioxide is the substance we know variously as “granite” or “sand” depending on how much it has weathered.
You want significant and USEFUL climate change? Set up a series of nuclear power generation stations along the ocean shore, which produce LOTS of electricity, and the central atomic piles need to be cooled. Use the ocean water as the cooling medium, and as the water is evaporated off of the brine, mine the brine for the other elements. The evaporated water is collected, and is essentially pure as distilled water, which it is. This is used for industrial and agricultural purposes, and the discharge from these purposes may be used to turn thousands of square miles of desert or semi-desert into lush green forests and prairie lands, all of which are eagerly gulping in the carbon dioxide resulting from the accelerated pace of growth.
There is LOTS of room for intelligent application of “green” technology. But not the way it is now being applied. All the small minds can think of is the lock up and rationing of the existing pool of energy sources, when we could be using the technology we have RIGHT NOW to accelerate and expand on what is occurring naturally all the time, with no assistance from mankind at all.
Thank you for that.
I think it is tyranny to put in the minds of men the idea that there is no future; no growth, no prosperity, and no fun; that self hatred and self righteous deprivation is all there is in store for one’s life.
Liars, charlatans and religious fakirs.