Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu)

From a study published on Thursday by scientists on the European Academies Science Advisory Council: Senior scientists from across Europe have evaluated the potential contribution of negative emission technologies (NETs) to allow humanity to meet the Paris Agreement's targets of avoiding dangerous climate change. They find that NETs have "limited realistic potential" to halt increases in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at the scale envisioned in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios. This new report finds that none of the NETs has the potential to deliver carbon removals at the gigaton (Gt) scale and at the rate of deployment envisaged by the IPCC, including reforestation, afforestation, carbon-friendly agriculture, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs), enhanced weathering, ocean fertilisation, or direct air capture and carbon storage (DACCs).

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Either it will kill us or it won't

[Seven Spirals]

Either way, I'm not going to sit here feeling responsible (I don't have kids, that makes me *much* greener than 90% of the planet, even if they drive a Prius). I'm not a denier. I believe man-made climate change is real. When things suck bad enough, folks just can't be bothered to care. Many of us have more germane issues in our own lives to worry about. If you are making time for the left-wing guilt trip about Gaia/Mother-Earth you probably have too good a life in the first place. I'd like to see you spouting about that shit when you are in my shoes. Get some *real* problems.