Current Events > Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere

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scientists pay others to get published btw.
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Taking a closer look, it's hard not to be concerned about increasing the scale to a significant degree. The article mentions that a tonne of the stuff can remove half a tonne of CO2 from the atmosphere. While that ratio is pretty nice, we're talking many billions of tonnes of CO2 that need to be removed. And though this process may indeed be many magnitudes faster than formation via natural processes, there's a huge question of how much is produced each time. After all, the example image of the mineral in question (which was credited to the project leader himself) is a mere 4 microns wide. If we're dealing with a mineral that forms in such small amounts each time, even with the rate sped up, the discrepancy in scale is pretty alarming.

MaverickXeo posted...

Omnislasher posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

Removing CO2 is not a good thing... since our CO2 levels have rose, our forests are growing more and more.

*risen
and this is an insane person, everyone

Tons of articles and research papers show this.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

https://tinyurl.com/hwfng8s

Omnislasher posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

Omnislasher posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

Removing CO2 is not a good thing... since our CO2 levels have rose, our forests are growing more and more.

*risen
and this is an insane person, everyone

Tons of articles and research papers show this.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

https://tinyurl.com/hwfng8s

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-study-rising-carbon-dioxide-levels-will-help-and-hurt-crops

From nasa... they state that it will benefit in the short term, and long term could remain unchanged.
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If anything, I'd suspect that rising CO2 levels is caused more by deforestation than by burning dinosaurs.
Plants will suck up all they can get, but if the plants don't exist...

The government isn't gonna like this
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Omnislasher is a perfect example of what it looks like when someone doesn't want climate change to be fixed because it would upend their ulterior political motivations if it was no longer a threat.

So true.
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anyway

for anyone more interested in learning about reality from actual experts than being fed bs by politicians, psychologists, or clickbait articles, one person i highly recommend is Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre in Manchester
he knows the hard data as well as anyone and has a strong background in both earth science and engineering which gives him a well-rounded and informative perspective

here's a lecture from this year. he's from 11:15 to 42:35, and specifically touches on negative emissions (carbon capture) around 23:30 briefly. you can watch or read him go into more detail on that subject elsewhere.
the other guy i don't find particularly interesting, he just tells us all about bangladesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2b68JFsnkA" data-time="

I'll watch it during my commute home but if it's just overly pessimistic fear mongering trash designed to justify deindustrializing the entire planet and going back to an agricultural way of life, I'm going to be extremely disappointed.
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On_The_Edge posted...

The government isn't gonna like this

i dont understand
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no, his message is nothing like that at all