Hey, don’t take my opinion for it, listen to they hyper-climate cult New Scientist
The green solution to climate change isn’t happening – and that’s good
You’ve probably seen those nice graphs showing carbon dioxide levels and temperatures falling towards the end of the century. How is this miracle meant to be achieved? The idea is that we harvest plants, burn them for energy and then capture and store the CO2. Voila, problem solved!
Except bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS, as this idea is known, is turning out to be an unmitigated disaster. It isn’t being rolled out on anything like the scale required, in part because it’s ridiculously expensive, would be catastrophic for biodiversity if it was done on this scale and, last but far from least, it doesn’t even work. It actually increases CO2 emissions rather than reducing them on the timescales that matter.
The rest is stuck behind a pretty hard paywall, but, you get the idea: it’s like most of the cult’s ideas, idiot, expensive, and unworkable. And, would make things worse, per cult doctrine on CO2.
Meanwhile, the Montana yutes astroturfed lawsuit is looking for new life
Montana youth argue for 9th Circuit court to allow climate change case to proceed
Attorneys for a coalition of youth who challenged a series of President Donald Trump’s executive orders related to energy and climate change last year argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow their case to move forward.
The U.S. District Court in Montana, which dismissed the claims in Lighthiser v. Trump, erred by ruling it did not have jurisdiction to offer sweeping relief in reviewing the legality of the executive orders, argued attorney Julia Olsen with Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit law firm representing the youth.
“Beyond question, the federal judiciary retains the authority to adjudicate constitutional challenges to executive action,” Olsen said, citing recent circuit court decisions. “And so we think there’s a clear power of Article Three here to provide redress and to remand for the merits.”
Attorneys for the federal government and Montana pushed back against Olsen’s arguments during the April 13 hearing, saying rolling back the three executive orders would not not provide the plaintiffs with any relief and that the court correctly ruled it did not have the power to take up the issue.
Sadly, no one asked the yutes if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels.
Mr Teach goes off on free enterprise!! Investors were/are attempting to reap riches from a bad idea. Carbon capture and storage!! If 3 TRILLION trees can’t keep up with CO2 emissions, then a CCS plant in Iceland won’t either.
Relax. The war is over and global warming won. Accept it and adapt as needed.
The older Teach gets, the more he hates ‘youts’
The global warming war was never really a war. Just a made up bogeyman to convince weak minded people were all gonna die if we don’t give more money to bigger government and shysters like Al Gore. Haha.
The geoengineering efforts to slow or stop global warming are all suspect.
There are just too many “unknown unknowns” (h/t Donald Rumsfeld).
“Climate change geoengineering refers to large-scale, deliberate interventions in Earth’s systems to mitigate global warming, primarily divided into 1)solar radiation modification (reflecting sunlight) and 2)carbon dioxide removal.”
Note that massive volcanic eruptions can result in temporary cooling. Major eruptions, such as Mount Pinatubo in 1991, can lower global temperatures by roughly 0.5C for one to three years.
Can adding megatons of sulfur-containing compounds to the stratosphere reflect more of the Sun’s energy? Are there hazards with blocking the amount of sunlight reaching Earth?
https://www.epa.gov/geoengineering/about-geoengineering