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testeronious@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago

Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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testeronious@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago
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Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change
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It could cost the US $100 billion a year.
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    I am weak in science. Is this sarcasm or does a method really exist? I am extremely curious. Please enlighten me.

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      deleted by creator

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        The problem is trees are short-term (even the long-lived ones) and only a part of the solution because they are a part of the carbon cycle. We need to remove carbon from the carbon cycle.

        Another part of the solution is pyrolysis of industrial plant waste into biochar/charcoal. This stable form of carbon can last thousands of years underground and does not need any fancy technology or equipment.

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        I feel extremely dumb now. I am gonna take my leave.

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          You missed an opportunity to say ‘gonna take my leaf’ … but alas

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        And grass, and bushes, and all things green that grow. The phytoplankton in the ocean actually process more CO2 than anything else on the planet. That’s one reason why ocean warming is so concerning.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

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        😂🙏🏽

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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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