I certainly agree, personally I'm all for dealing with it the old fashioned way, photosynthesis. While I believe we can do it by making the oceans far more productive, others may have different ideas, the point is making CO2 work for us rather than trying to store it somewhere.
My point is that whether we grow more plants on land, algae, or plankton at sea they all take in CO2 and create carbon based life forms and the Oxygen we all need to breath.
Certainly it can't happen instantly, but green is in, so why not really make things green. In the case of oceans, I'm a proponent of creating artificial upwelling to bring nutrients down roughly 400 feet to the surface where the lack of nutrients leave millions of square miles of the oceans surfaces nearly sterile. Add nutrient and sunlight at the oceans surface, a few plankton to get things started and in no time you'll be absorbing all kinds of CO2 and producing all sorts of oxygen. Of course this will also permit the fish population to grow, and it may have the effect of slightly cooling the ocean surface as the water carrying the nutrient to the surface is colder than the water at the surface.
Gary |
