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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How stupid can you get.
Morons. The only thing they need to do is to prevent sunspots in order to drive us to a Maunder minimum. (Yes, I know that begs notions of cause and effect). Now, ordinarily, liberals would spend a google dollars preventing sunspots... but what'y'ya know, they are disappearing all by they little selves.
Then, one volcano blows and puts 1,000,000 times that back in the atmosphere. Idjits.
Sorry, the patent belongs to GOD.
Weren’t they going to put some type of dark matter on them to absorb more sunlight so they would melt?
They're working on a two-fer here. First, by removing the CO2 that is literally the stuff of life, and second, by blocking the sunlight so that plant growth will be inhibited.
I guess that simply trying to remove enough CO2 to destroy earthly life is going too slow for the fanatics. They need to speed it up.
Reminds me of an office building I once worked in. Half the females had portable heaters trying to stay warm and half had portable fans trying to cool off.
And all the men were too warm (but didn’t complain).
Really really stupid. Energy is needed to run the fans. Plants use co2. Plant trees, idiots!
I don’t remember exactly what they planned. But every time I see the reporting of the ice melting and everyone is going to die, I think just a few decades ago they wanted to melt it themselves because everyone was going to die. Bunch of wackos.
Open season on these idiots' balloons:
Climate change is a weak science...closer to sociology than hard science.
“They don’t even suck very good.”
Well. They don’t suck very well.
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Plant Trees!!!!!
I remember an article/post about how $15,000 worth of trees would have the same affect as their $5M contraption.
Most people plant trees and grass. These pinheads just tax everyone to line their own pockets.
[ 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. ]
Landfills technically sequester carbon....
They should move to Maine, we have dim sunlight and a tree every square foot. It sucks for the first 5 months of the year.
It seems like the next ice age will be up and running before the nutty climate kooks sit down and shut up.
So the solution to climate change is to change the climate ? These people all need to be shot. We are in a ice age you retards.
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