Re: Climate Remediation Engineering - Size of Problem

On Tue, 6 May 2025 20:38:17 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

On 5/6/25 18:47, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 5 May 2025 20:06:25 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 5/4/2025 8:48 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

For some time, I've been following the debate on Climate Change and
the back and forth on the practicality of removing enough carbon
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, soon enough to matter.

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What constitutes "soon enough to matter"?  To who?  What?
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It took a long time to dig this hole, why would you think
it would be easy/quick/inexpensive to FILL it?
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We somehow managed to live with a ban on CFCs (ozone hole).  And,
emission controls on automobiles (smog, acid rain, etc.)
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One just has to decide there is value in "fixing" these (man-made)
problems.
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Heed Genesis 2:15, christians!
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There are still a billion dirt-poor people in the world, without
electricity and food insecure. They need energy, transport, and food,
all generating or using CO2.
 
Long-term, prosperous people reduce their birth rates. I expect that
in a few hundred years Earth will have maybe 2 billion healthy,
literate, peaceful people and CO2 will be around 600 PPM, ideal for
trees and crops.
 

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If only, but I don't believe we'll get there. People are far too
bellicose.
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Jeroen Belleman

We have come an enormous way in the last 1000 years, and in the last
300. I expect continued progress.

Races and languages, the basis of tribal warfare, are gradually
merging. Around here every human critter that you can imagine seems to
be friends and lovers and parents with every other. That has to
continue.

Dolores Park, on a rare day when it's not cold and foggy:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/79aw3rqkizj0gxegc5cnk/Dolores_Park_May_2025.jpg?rlkey=yb4eu2d3e67vwuekla73ds9bf&raw=1