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Of course it's never going to be more economical to remove it than just avoiding producing it in the first place. Problem is, even if all human sourced CO2e em
by Teknoman117 5y ago
Of course it's never going to be more economical to remove it than just avoiding producing it in the first place.
Problem is, even if all human sourced CO2e emissions ceased tomorrow, the world would still continue to warm significantly because the blanket is already up there. The natural processes that sequester carbon take many millennia (or more) to make any significant changes.
- pfdietz 5y agoThis is not completely true. The oceans are still absorbing some of the emitted CO2, so if human CO2 emissions were to cease the atmospheric CO2 level would begin to decline. This will eventually cause the surface waters to become saturated with CO2 though, so this decline will slow before all the anthropogenic CO2 were absorbed. Eventually excess carbon will be transported to the deep ocean, allowing more CO2 to be absorbed.