Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism
Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism
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Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism
No :)
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Anyone who understands the concentration of CO2 in the air knows that these things are nothing but a PR stunt. You're not going to pull enough out of the air to have any meaningful contribution; there's just not a lot there to pull out. For all the harm it's causing, CO2 makes up a tiny part of air composition, only about 0.04%.
These things are built for idiots who think the solution is as simple as "just run the air through a filter" and don't grasp how much air there actually is, and how little there is to pull out.
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That's what the article is about. It also goes into biomass energy land use and the unknown effectiveness of grinding up rocks + laying them on farmland
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So your answer is "Yes"?
As the wikipedia article cites peer reviewed study (see study tab) that even though these kind of headlines make up only ~ 2 % of all hesdlines 44 % of them answer "yes", and only 22 % answer "no" with the rest being indecisive.
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I think studies that look at the article's response are going to give a very different outcome than the real world result. The heuristic exists because a lot of news is overhyped halfsense trying to generate clicks (or draw eyeballs in the pre-digital world). So even if the article suggests a yes answer, a no outcome is still probably more likely.
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Trees
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No Canadian should be delusional enough to think their country's forestry is even cutting carbon emissions. There's a problem with first world energy use here
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Funny because the guardian insisted for years that carbon capture is our only hope, meanwhile China was the only country cutting emissions despite manufacturing everything anyone on earth demanded
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