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- happytheclam, on 10/16/2009, -6/+27Uh. Carbon Capture? It's called tree's dawg. They've been around for billions of years. Like 90% of a tree's mass comes from carbon it takes from the atmosphere. Grow Tree's then cut them down and bury them. These people are retarded.
- capheine, on 10/16/2009, -0/+19I consider myself a semi-tree hugger and the whole carbon capture/carbon credit thing is ***** stupid.
- SteelChicken, on 10/16/2009, -0/+14Just another reason to tax people and spend money on useless projects.
PLANT MORE TREES - TheBogie, on 10/16/2009, -3/+10Carbon capture is the worst idea since bell bottom jeans.
- mrwalsh, on 10/16/2009, -4/+11Absolutely deluded hoards of sheep pursuing madness. CO2 is a trace gas (far less than .1%) in the atmosphere, and man's contribution to that .1% is a very small percentage. The "science" assumes that the world's ecosphere can absorb an exact amount of CO2 and not one iota more, and so by tipping the scale by an extraordinarily tiny amount catastrophe ensues. Not to mention there's no experimental proof that .1% of CO2 does anything to a body of air. It's really more an outlet for success and prosperity guilt for some and hatred of the unnatural by others.
- prakash1234, on 10/16/2009, -3/+10well said
Co2 global warming is a pure political agenda, like the war on terror etc
you see lawyers talking green, then you know you have a problem :)
If everyone reduces their foot print, and regulate industries so that they pollute less and have good recycling processes, this will address the issue.
the whole obama green czar etc is bull *****, we already have EPA for this. - kaoshammer50, on 10/16/2009, -1/+7Carbon credits is a complete sham. Period. It gets nothing accomplished. Al Gore is a villain.
Plant some more goddamn trees! - tao52nyc, on 10/16/2009, -2/+8Of course, the big assumption here is that "carbon capture" is necessary. It isn't, as others here have argued.
- kaoshammer50, on 10/16/2009, -1/+6Not to mention the fact that there is no fingerprint of increased carbon in the upper atmosphere, meaning no increasing greenhouse effect. Carbon as a problem is complete *****. These ***** probably never touched on the fact that global warming is a commonplace thing on earth? If it wasn't, how come the majority of North America isn't still covered in a mile thick sheet of ice, which we know it had once been? I would assume global warming was the culprit. And that happened before man could even put some carbon in the air. THESE THINGS HAPPEN. The trick is: ADAPT. You can't stop this. It's gonna happen regardless. Just like at SOME point, it's going to cool down again.
And, it's October 16 and there's been two snowfalls here in New York, thanks Global Warming. - BigManOnCampus, on 10/16/2009, -2/+6that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Biological systems have always been thousands, even millions of times more efficient than man-made systems.
- biogears, on 10/16/2009, -2/+6Global taxation anyone?
- prakash1234, on 10/16/2009, -1/+5These western countries cant get any of their population to shop junk, like they used to, so to stimulate the GDP, they are into Green.
The only problem with green, which is a political move (WWF, al gore etc) is to stir the western economy at the cost of developing economies in india,brazil,china, africa etc
Industrial revolution is the key to bring a population out of poverty, with the whole green carbon thing, the UN thugs are preventing industrialization of developing economies, while the developed countries, polluted and industrialized without paying a fine.
The funny thing is govt cant exclusively fund this green, and people dont have much money to go do these green stuff. so lets the al gores talk for now. - prakash1234, on 10/16/2009, -1/+3plant more trees is the agenda, supported by india,brazil and russia
- DankBuddz, on 10/16/2009, -1/+3Good one! I love conservative humor. So simple minded and easy to understand, especially for us potheads.
- speede06, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2What the ***** are we going to do with gigantic tanks of CO2 underground?
- halyard, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2Climate change must be stopped! Global warming turned my girlfriend into a turkey and I got salmonellosis.
- DankBuddz, on 10/16/2009, -3/+4wtf are you talking about?
- NJank, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2yo dawg, I heard you like carbon in your trees so I... oh f-it.
- DankBuddz, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2Uh oh, don't outdo yourself!
- prakash1234, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1they can snort it.
- TheMachine1, on 10/16/2009, -2/+3A black hole would be a convenient compact way to store CO2.
- uberchaoslord, on 10/16/2009, -2/+3Credits are just a method of money-transfer to poorer provinces/states/countries. You guys are railing against socialism in the US, why aren't you freaking out about Carbon Credits the way you are about Health Care?
- uberchaoslord, on 10/16/2009, -2/+3There are lots of fast-growing breeds that could be used, but you're right, its still a 5-10 year plan. Trees need CO2 to grow you know.
- mattmacneil, on 10/16/2009, -5/+5Lol, remember that kid in that balloon?!
- kaoshammer50, on 10/17/2009, -0/+0There is no evidence that carbon is creating a greenhouse effect. If it was, the amount of carbon in the upper atmosphere should have increased in recent years, but it hasn't.
All of this worrying over global warming is just alarmist propaganda. It's a natural thing that occurs in cycles on Earth. So animals die out because their habitats are destroyed due to the changing climate. This happened before when the ice age ended. Notice there are no more mammoths or giant ground sloths? Those were here 10k years ago. Where are they now? Climate change. And you can't blame humans for that. Go humans! - IcedKasz, on 10/16/2009, -0/+0I think this article is missing a very important point: Carbon Capture infrastructure is a last-ditch attempt at curbing global warming. If the whole Green movement doesn't work (CARBON OFFSET IS WORKING, RIGHT? RIGHT?), and developing countries start pumping out more greenhouse gasses, we're screwed. Carbon Capture will take the carbon out of the air, and back into the ground where it started. Well. The carbon that came from the oil we've been burning and releasing into the atmosphere. It'll be right back where it was before.
The cost of the project is terrifying. $4B / country / year? How many countries need to contribute?
I'm also curious as to how the whole infrastructure would work. I know we could start scrubbing oil refineries more efficiently, but they've got these Carbon Capture trees, which look like giant fly swatters sticking out of the ground. Do they suck C02 and methane out of the air? And THEN what? Does it pump the gas into a tank to be transported to an empty oil well, or is there a direct gas line to said well? How the hell does it all work? - DirtyDiggberal, on 10/16/2009, -3/+3You're too high to understand.
- DirtyDiggberal, on 10/16/2009, -2/+1Conservative humor? You're high again.
- DirtyDiggberal, on 10/16/2009, -2/+1Wat, bro?
- Ninh, on 10/16/2009, -4/+3They could possibly dump beef into mine shafts along with the plant food, while they're at it.
- IcedKasz, on 10/16/2009, -1/+0Same thing we do with oil we can't get at. Just leave it there.
- capheine, on 10/16/2009, -6/+4Dugg down for apostrophe abuse. Go back to 5th-grade English class.
- NJank, on 10/16/2009, -3/+1please avoid confusing climate and weather.
- jayjayjoni, on 10/16/2009, -5/+2takes time to grow trees. I think they want to do this at a much faster rate.
- rmxz, on 10/16/2009, -4/+1IIRC much of North America was once covered by forests.
Wonder how much of the excess CO2 comes from farmland not absorbing it as fast as forests once did. - imbobbyus, on 10/16/2009, -6/+1The first priority should be reducing the carbon footprint and to figure out where and how to store it.
- perfecxion, on 10/16/2009, -7/+1They are just trying to figure out other ways besides trees. There was a digg story a while back about creating fake trees that could also clean the air.
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