Posted on 04/18/2022 2:43:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, that just proves it is an ever increasing threat. /S
If there is more CO2 in the atmosphere, would that promote plant growth? If the planet warms up because of more CO2 in the atmosphere, would that promote plant growth?
If there is more plant growth, would plants use more CO2?
Would the atmosphere reach an equilibrium between the extra CO2 humans create and the extra CO2 the plants use?
No doubt that will happen. My calculation a few years ago was that we just had to reduce CO2 creation by about 50% to get to equilibrium. We will do that with tech that is inevitable. The other thing to think about is the lifecycle of the plants. The more that are turned into permanent carbon the better. That can done mainly by harvesting plants and creating permanent objects.
Finally we need to seed the right plants. There are plants that are more suitable for extracting and capturing large amounts of CO2 including (and perhaps especially) algae in the ocean that will capture carbon and sink to the bottom.
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