Re: Climate Remediation Engineering - Size of Problem

On 8/05/2025 9:07 am, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 2025 23:43:05 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 5/7/25 16:00, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 2025 09:41:18 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 5/7/25 00:56, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 2025 23:26:56 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 5/6/25 22:40, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 2025 21:14:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 5/6/25 21:09, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 2025 20:38:17 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 5/6/25 18:47, john larkin wrote:

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

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

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Religious and political convictions rather seem to diverge increasingly.
The chasm between the richest and poorest grows ever wider.

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But the fraction of the population that is super-poor keeps declining.
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Having some rich people around is OK. Having super-poor ones isn't.
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Most rich people have their wealth in stock shares, just bits on a
drive somewhere. A billionaire doesn't eat a million times as much as
the average person.
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We're far we ever will.

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Things keep getting better.

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You sound like Trump.
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Jeroen Belleman

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Thanks for the compliment.

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It wasn't intended as one.

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I knew that. Insults are normal here.
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The guy is deluded, crazy and dangerous.

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He's smart, has common sense, and is winning.

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If his sense passes for common sense in the US, ... never mind.
I suppose you're just rationalizing your poor choice. It's a well
known psychological defense mechanism. Trump is proudly leading
the US into a catastrophe.
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Jeroen Belleman

 Not my choice; I don't vote.
 We'll see about the catastrophe. If he can shut down the fentanyl and
export the cartel thugs and cancel Daylight Savings Time, he will save
a lot of lives.

People make money out of selling fentanyl to Americans who seem to need it. Nobody has every stopped criminals from smuggling goods into the US that the population wants to buy. Prohibition didn't work and the war on drugs was a waste of time and money.
Trump wants to export anybody who looks vaguely like a cartel thug, and doesn't want to waste time on letting due process work out who actually is a member of any cartel. It delivers the photo-opportunities he craves, but also quite a lot of miscarriages of justice.
Daylight Saving Time hasn't killed anybody.

Last time he was President, the catastrophe was Covid, and he didn't
invent Covid.

But he didn't take it seriously - to the point of getting infected himself, and it killed 3,642 Americans per million. It only killed 2,556 per million in France and 2182 per million in Germany. Boris Johnson was a similarly incompetent blowhard and it killed 3,389 per million in the UK.

Reducing funding for The Arts will be a catastrophe for some people.
They will have to find real jobs.

He's defunding the kind of people who compete with him for public attention by making equally empty gestures (if rather better thought out).
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Bill Sloman, Sydney