plankton blooms, from seeding the sea with iron is what I was thinking of. It's been suggested. Doesn't sound like something that'll make the difference to me, but not my chosen specialised subject. It's an awful lot of carbon that's being chucked into the air at the moment.
I can't see that CO2 has a finite life span in the atmosphere. Certainly I've not heard of a mechanism that will take it out in anything like a suitable timespan. It took a very very long time for the oil and coal to be laid down. Growing trees and burying them seems like a lot of effort. Lets hope for fusion power, lots of CO2 fixing equipment and filling the holes we've just dug back in.
flitljm thought plants would take up the strain over a longish period...but this suggests maybe not: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7620921.stm though I suppose that is just for plants being out of the zone they like. They'll migrate with the temperature they like eventually.
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It's an awful lot of carbon that's being chucked into the air at the moment.
I can't see that CO2 has a finite life span in the atmosphere. Certainly I've not heard of a mechanism that will take it out in anything like a suitable timespan.
It took a very very long time for the oil and coal to be laid down.
Growing trees and burying them seems like a lot of effort.
Lets hope for fusion power, lots of CO2 fixing equipment and filling the holes we've just dug back in.
flitljm thought plants would take up the strain over a longish period...but this suggests maybe not:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7620921.stm
though I suppose that is just for plants being out of the zone they like. They'll migrate with the temperature they like eventually.