Posted on 05/02/2022 8:36:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some of the biggest companies in the world, including Facebook and Google, are planning to spend almost $1 billion on a new climate change strategy.
It's not renewable energy or planting trees. It's pulling carbon dioxide emissions right out of the air.
The world has moved so slowly over the last 40 years to rein in greenhouse gases that scientists are now finding that cutting the use of fossil fuels alone may not be enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change. The world is on track for increasingly destructive heat waves, floods and storms. That means heat-trapping gases may also need to be pulled out of the atmosphere.
It's known as "carbon dioxide removal." In the latest international climate assessment, scientists found that using it will be "unavoidable" if countries are going to meet their pledges to keep average global temperatures from rising to ever-harmful levels.
Much of the technology to soak up carbon is still in its infancy. Some techniques can have significant impacts on the land. Some climate activists argue it's a risky distraction and that it would give the fossil fuel industry a free pass to keep operating.
Still, scientists running the numbers say the world has reached a point where every possible strategy is needed. Global emissions are still going the wrong direction. In 2021, they reached the highest level ever.
Cost looms large for carbon capture. The Biden Administration recently set a goal of getting carbon removal to below $100 per metric ton within a decade. Currently, capturing carbon directly from the air with technology can cost six or seven times that. And no one is really sure who will pay for it.
Carbon capture projects could also have a big land impact, a big concern for environmental justice communities.
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I can only vaccuum my own carpet. I refuse to do the atmosphere.
What a great idea!
We live in a clown world...............
Have they proved CO2 causes the earth to warm?
If CO2 levels drop below 250 ppm (currently at 400 ppm) mass extinction will result.
their plans are to murder YOU, YOUR children,
this Republic, the PLANET, and plants.
they were chosen BECAUSE
they are stupid and docile and like it.
These people are delusional.
Whether it works or not isn’t the question. The environmental-protection movement isn’t about protecting the environment: it’s about killing prosperity and world economies. So of course ‘not everybody likes the idea’.
As Carl Sagan used to say (before his conversion to Climatechangeolgy™), "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof".
The world is carbon-based, as are all lifeforms. How are they going to deal with that?
... and in charge of the global economy.
No.
In fact, ice cores have shown that CO2 follows temperature rise, not causes it.
The Sun is the determinant factor of the temperature of the earth.
“The world is carbon-based, as are all lifeforms. How are they going to deal with that?”
I remember Mom annihilating flies with the vacuum hose. Does that count?
PEOPLE ARE GOING STARK RAVING MAD OVER THIS SENSELESS RELIGIION.
Have they proved CO2 causes the earth to warm?
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That is no longer necessary. Not since it became government policy that it does.
stupid idea. we exhale CO2.
Biden’s ministry of disinformation needs to get on this; if they haven’t already.
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