Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality

Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by Aerroon on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:24AM (#37455196)

Whether it's unreasonable or not, I don't think we have much of a choice.

Obviously the goal is to move as much stuff off of GHG emissions, but we've done a lot of damage to the atmosphere. If you look at a CO2 graph in the atmosphere over 40,000 years our GHG emissions are basically a vertical line:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_40k.png

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Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by mortureb on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:46PM (#37457606)

I would think that if we stop putting it out there and let the trees take care of the rest we might make it. But this is an uninformed opinion.

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Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by Aerroon on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:21PM (#37457928)

Nature would eventually take care of it, but that would take centuries. On top of that, it's unlikely that we will be able to cut all GHG emissions. Having some amount of carbon capture seems important.

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