Posted on 07/26/2017 2:59:28 PM PDT by plain talk
Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.
Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting the goals of the Paris climate deal to curb global warming that researchers blame for causing more heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels.
Climeworks reckons it now costs about $600 to extract a tonne of carbon dioxide from the air and the plant's full capacity due by the end of 2017 is only 900 tonnes a year. That's equivalent to the annual emissions of only 45 Americans.
And Climeworks sells the gas, at a loss, to nearby greenhouses as a fertiliser to grow tomatoes and cucumbers and has a partnership with carmaker Audi, which hopes to use carbon in greener fuels.
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Back in the seventies when they were hollering about global cooling, some scientists were planning on blowing up glaciers or something in Alaska to warm the earth.
Isn't our atmosphere about 80 percent nitrogen, almost 20 percent oxygen, with less than 1 percent trace gasses? And of that, about 0.04 percent (four-hundredths of a percent) is CO2. So liberal buffoons want to reduce the mere 0.04 percent of CO2 and starve plant life on Earth. Madness I say!
God already owns it. Sorry.
They - the climate alarmists - consider what humans have done over the course of time as in affect “human engineering” and now they think we arrogant humans are so utopian perfect we can intentionally mess with the atmosphere in a supreme feat of human engineering, and nothing will possibly go wrong! Yea, right! Sometimes I think these climate “fixers” are worse than all the Al Gore climate alarmists.
These fools are really going to f**k things up. Not good to mess with nature.
$cientific $uck $tudy.
What does it take to be a “scientist” now-a-days? Must you be a lunatic??? I laugh at these morons.
Dang, Shirley, Truly and Tricks are going to freeze to death and they were just starting to warm up ...
Quite insane. Especially when the article notes they sell it at a loss. This sounds like something Kramer would have come up with on the Seinfeld show. ;-)
These idiots are going to screw around, and get us all killed with their false science. Just ask any of them to prove there is such a thing as “global warming” much less “global warming caused by mankind, and all you get in return is some crap that would make up a piece of a puzzle, but never can they present the entire puzzle as it doesn’t exist. They all need to be in rubber rooms playing with themselves.
They dream up more and more outlandish ways to suck money out of their economies and create busywork jobs.
As long as they keep this idocy in Europe and burden their own economies it’s another WIN for president Trump.
How about planting a lot of trees? There used to be a holiday known as Arbor Day.
From a $23 million dollar plant???!!!
They could quadruple the results by just going out and shooting a couple hundred ISIS or Al-Qaeda killers for an investment of a few hundred dollars a head.
The rag-heads don't have the same standard of living as Americans so you would have to kill 10 times as many ISIS. Hey ... nothing wrong with that.
HAHAHAHAHA! Oh. They’re series.
As long as my tax dollars don’t go towards this stupidity, more power to em
This is why I have never understood the environmentalist logic in recycling paper. Paper comes from trees that are planted as a crop. It is like recycling wheat. Bury the paper in a landfill and plant more trees.
I’d LOVE to see the environmental impact statement on this sucker
Herbert Marcuse.
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