fine, I should have said one possible cause.
I can't let that alone either, it's possible in the same way 5G is a possible cause of cancer and voter fraud: there is no publicly advanced and precisely defined mechanism that doesn't contradict proven science.
It's a purported cause.
Tis a silly idea
I wouldn't be surprised to see massive industrial greenhouses with huge DAC machines keeping CO2 ppm around 1500. Just to provide enough plant life to support more humans.
Alright but its hardly sequestration if you give the carbon to humans who poop (and breathe) it out into the general atmosphere again. That's just a plan for concentrated farming which only makes sense if we have shortage of surface area (which we really don't).
But I would say the same thing to you:
Just because we can do something does not mean we should.
*looks up from resurrecting dinosaurs* whoops.
There are some extremely nasty consequences for a lot of current Earth life if we suddenly lowered temperatures. Much of the remaining life has adjusted for the higher temperatures. Playing with global temperatures by lowering it back down one degree could cause even more extinctions of the remaining Earth life. Lowering CO2 PPM would cause the browning of all the present Earth greening NASA observed. For what reason?
Oh yea I'm not saying we need to mess with anything, but we should put ourselves in the position of being able to since we don't know what will happen next.
Also between lowering the average temp by 1 degree C and cutting the carbon dioxide concentration in half the latter would be far more catastrophic.
If there's a way to cool the planet (for whatever reason you think it's important) surely doing it in a way that doesn't destroy green life should be considered.
Absolutely. I say we should be burning our trash at 6000C so we stop burying carbon (and other useful stuff) in these disgusting useless landfills.
It's not a problem now because we're digging up more carbon elsewhere but eventually that will stop and we need to stop burying carbon. We like plants, the animals like plants, in fact it's only zombies who don't like plants.
