OMG OMG OMG Hair-on-fire article in the The Sunday Times
Dangerous climate change will be avoided only if vast quantities of carbon dioxide are sucked out of the atmosphere, a landmark report due to be published tomorrow will conclude.
With warming already standing at 1.1C, even rapid decarbonisation — such as a wholesale switch to renewable energy and everyone giving up driving and flying — may now not be enough to avoid breaching the 1.5C threshold.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carbon-extraction-only-way-to-stop-climate-crisis-j5nfxntsv
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Luckily we have Josh to respond to such hysterical hyperbole.
Head on over to Cartoons By Josh and peruse his work.
And while you’re there, perhaps purchase a pint fer the young lad.
Plant more trees. Problem Solv-Ved.
You don’t even need to plant any trees . The current issue of the house magazine of the CBA (Council for British Archaeology) recommends leaving sites to self seed, which they will do with amazing rapidity. The site of an old farmhouse that we finished excavating in 2016 in Greater Manchester now has a forest of 3-4 m saplings growing from what was a cobbled farm yard – just 6 years on a pebbled, not ideal, surface. Bit of a nuisance in fact because I want to go back and do a bit more work there.
Sure, but what problem?
It’s a tough, tricky problem, carbon is. Sort of a carbonundrum.
A day without WUWT is like a day without sunshine. I wonder if the bug fixed itself, or if someone fixed it. Something to do with Firefox, I guess. My wife could get it fine, but she uses Chrome.
Just use Brawndo, it’s got electrolytes, that’s what plants crave.
Fortunately, the oceans contain 45 times as much CO2 as the atmosphere, and the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is in an equilibrium with that in the ocean. Trying to remove any noticeable portion of CO2 from the atmosphere only results in near-full replacement from the ocean. But of course, the folks who stand to get rich from these schemes don’t want to hear that.
It always bugged me a bit when CO2 is referred to as “fertilizer”. CO2 is not their “food”.
It’s what they breathe.
Then they exhale O2 which we breathe.
Mess with either exchange, everything loses.
Strong temperature drop across the western US.
Good cartoon.
Little known fact, CO2 levels are important in anaesthetics, ICU and emergency medicine. Low CO2 will kill animal life in general but humans in particular. These CO2 removal devises are unlikely to get the atmosphere that low, but if one is built near me, I’m leaving the area.
It’s not just plants. CO2 is essential for all life.