Posted on 04/02/2022 2:41:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is the world’s only chance to avoid climate change disaster, according to a report due to be released Monday.
The paper by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to say that dangerous climate change will be avoided only if vast quantities of carbon dioxide are removed from the air, the Times of London reported.
“Carbon dioxide removal is necessary to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally and nationally,” a draft version of the summary report said, according to The Times. If “negative emission” technologies fulfill their potential, it continues, they could even enable a reversal of global warming.
However, carbon-capturing technology is nowhere near where it needs to be. Today, 19 operational plants capture only 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, compared to the 36 billion tons the world produces annually, according to the report.
The paper also says that an urgent and wholesale shift away from fossil fuels is needed for there to be any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Scientists believe topping that threshold will lead to significant and irreversible harm to Earth’s climate.
But the report, commissioned and endorsed by 195 governments, acknowledges that the only “negative emissions” strategy currently used on a mass scale is tree planting.
Scientists are working on other techniques, including air capture or giant fans extracting carbon dioxide from the air and storing it underground or converting it into jet fuel.
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Yawn!
Save which climate?
but it’s water vapor that controls temperature you idiots
STUPIDITY ABOUNDS. So where is the old Reich Minister of Propaganda?
Plant more trees.
The heck with “technology”.
Interestingly, one of the reasons people won’t replace trees is so they don’t have to rake.
Well, I’d like to recommend that the UN turd worlders get off their butts and go out there and start removing it.
Commence Opération Vacu Suck!
How is this even possible given we are carbon based?
Do these science illiterates know about trees? As in planting more trees?
Better for humanity in general would be to drown all the occupants of the UN building in the East River.
We have to eliminate fossil fuels.....to save grandma
Soon-to-be released UN report to say removing carbon from atmosphere only way to save climate by killing all plant life and ending oxygen production! Its for the Children!!
CO2 is a plant growth stimulant. We are about to have a food shortage, we are told. Why would we not want more CO2 to help agriculture along?
“UN report to say removing carbon from atmosphere only way to save climate”
These must be the most stupid people who ever walked the Earth.
Everyone on the planet, plant three trees every year. Everyone shut up. Everyone will die a ripe old age in the same climate unless they move closer to the equator.
Doesn’t vegetation require carbon dioxide in order to live? Do they want the world to be denuded of plant life?
How many millions of dollars does the UN waste writing this Fiction ?
The commies are counting on a whole lot of ignorant and indoctrinated people to fall for the scam.
Seriously! Green lunatics express no concern whatsoever against plowing down trees, plundering the land, and building more crap just to make a buck, turning world into an inert concrete jungle!! Yeesh we learned about photosynthesis in grade school! WTF do teach people these days? Too much time teaching them to be gay communists!! 😡
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