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If atmospheric CO2 levels go up by 3ppm annually from burning fossil fuels, then its easy to calculate how much more carbon needs to be fixed annually to compensate. How to do it?
My idea is large submerged floating artificial kelp beds in the temperate pacific ocean, enormous stretch of territory and completely unused and unproductive.

also carbon fixing general discussion.

>> No.12310453

Allow wildlife to take back over this planet we share with them.

>> No.12310462

Super easy to fix, just introduce iron into the oceans... blooms will suck up MASSIVE amounts of CO2

>> No.12310467

brainlet question time

if our CO2 levels are getting higher, why aren't our plants turning into steroid versions of themselves

>> No.12310473

>>12310447
>3ppm annually
Seriously? So 300 ppm per century? (more still with increasing CO2 output)

>> No.12310479

>>12310467
Not all plants significantly benefit from higher CO2 concentrations than what we had pre industrial revolution, and even those who do will only benefit up to a certain point.

>> No.12310492

>>12310467
They are, but it only happens painfully slowly because all the global warming hysteria is total bullshit. Crop yields per acre are up massively in every agricultural sector over the past fifty years.

>> No.12310570

>>12310467
CO2 isn't generally the limiting factor for crop yield.

>> No.12310824
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>>12310447
it's us & two 800 lbs gorillas

>> No.12311201

>>12310453
This. Humans are heaping up their own funeral pyre.

>> No.12311212

>>12310462
What that does to the oceans could be worse which is why we haven't tried it yet. You are however, perfectly correct.

>> No.12311902

>>12310473
Human population will grow to 10+B in few more years. Then those countries will become industrialize and use of co2 will double. There's no brakes.

>> No.12312373

>>12310824
ok

>> No.12312448

Mixing charcoal into soil is a great way to sequester carbon

>> No.12312464

Gorgon seaweed covering the oceans so thick you can walk to another Continent.

>> No.12312543

>>12310824
>29
>-11
>-6
One of these things is not like the other

>> No.12312552

>>12312543
oceans sequester less than 25% as much per unit area as compared to land

>>12312464
problem solved

>> No.12312580

>>12310467
CO2 isn't the only variable. Varying climate has much more of an impact.

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>>12312552
Not really, the terrestrial biosphere has a really short residence time compared to the ocean and deep ocean

>> No.12312617

>>12310467
They are. Plant biomass is increasing annually. The problem is this isn't enough to offset the carbon we release, and more plant biomass = more tinder for fires. Also, the biomass gains dilute micro-nutrient concentrations of the plants, increasing the amount of biomass grazers need to consume.

At some point the increase in annual droughts will completely negate any gains that would have been from the CO2 anyway, so it's really moot to point it out in the first place.

>> No.12312619

>>12312552
So? I was pointing out that both are net sinks and not "800 lbs gorillas"

>> No.12312738

>>12312464
>Gorgon seaweed
What is this? Search results are bringing me nothing

>> No.12314243

>>12312738
the internet is highly censored these days, there is all sorts of potentially advantageous information which used to be freely available to the general public that is now kept secret

>> No.12314249

>>12314243
Or "gorgon" is popular to include in names. Do you have a binomial name for it?