I think that by fabricating a lot of solar water pumps, puttting them in areas in the desserts of the world, where it used to be wet, and replanting these forests you might actually absorb that much CO2. Think of the entire Sahara becoming another forest, or Lebanon, or even the Middle East.

Isn’t that altering the ecosystems? Dry places aren’t “bad” by default. There are plants and animals there that enjoy the dryness, that depend on it. You’re just proposing another silly idea like the posted story.

I think maybe we should leave that ecosystem alone and not think about this anymore. For sure some politician will decide maybe it is worth nuking Australia just to dump the heated rocks into the ocean!

Rather, maybe it would be better if we ground up New Jersey and dump it in the ocean. The oil and chemical companies have made such a mess of part of Jersey, with Thoms River and all, it is probably bette to dump it.

I think humans have been devastating our eco systems and forests since the time of the Romans. They devasted forests to make wooden ships. Lebanese Cedars are practically gone, and they find boats entumbed in Egypt.

I think that by fabricating a lot of solar water pumps, puttting them in areas in the desserts of the world, where it used to be wet, and replanting these forests you might actually absorb that much CO2. Think of the entire Sahara becoming another forest, or Lebanon, or even the Middle East.

And, when water, humity and trees return to the area, guess what, probably no more fighting over resources.

Maybe a better idea then grinding up Autralia, or nuking it or destroying Nj.

Anyone

However, there is no evidence like this. Even if you believe that rising CO2 has produced warming, there is no evidence that cooling has resulted from falling CO2. It is a quite different question and needs independent proof.

And they’ve deleted my old password and won’t issue me a new one, so I can’t comment.

I happen to think it’s brilliant:

Crush limerock
Heat in gas-fired kiln (making CO2)
Drive off CO2 from limerock
Add to ocean to absorb some of the CO2 released in production.
Charge the rubes an arm and a leg for doing it.
Repeat.

It’s an economic perpetual motion machine.
Brilliant.
i only wish I’d thought of it.

I see a business opportunity here.

1. Every cubic meter of seawater naturally contains about 6 pounds of sulphate ions. Nothing we can do is likely to change that significantly.

2. Nitrates stimulates growth of the symbiotic algae in corals, i e the opposite of bleaching.

3. Seawater is alkaline, not acid.

ITYM “…all the fish.”

But I’m guessing there won’t be any edible fish left after this experiment.