CO2 levels in the atmosphere are being consumed by increased plant growth throughout the world. I have gardened all my life. The bloody weeds grow twice as fast now requiring weed pulling weekly, as opposed to once every three or four weeks in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Gravel and pavement are failing to provide much relief. Damned weeds grow everywhere. Trees are growing faster too. Over the last four years a series of high winds during storms blew down all of the trees in the back yard. They are all back and nearly as big.
Most developing economies don't give a crap about the CO2 bogeyman. They are rushing ahead to build fossil fuel energy plants, especially coal fired plants. So we have a few choices, but the easiest thing to do is to plant a lot of trees etc. There is no evidence that most people want to give up consuming things, so the developing economies will continue to build energy plants to manufacture all the crap we need to consume.
We dumped a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere in the last thirty years, and cut a lot of plant life down, but the plants are coming back and consuming everything we can give them. I think the growth of CO2 levels in the atmosphere will deaccelerate in the coming years and plateau, even if we increase CO2 emissions, because of increases in plant growth. Peak CO2 is coming because we will run out of cheap, easy to get at fossil fuels, in a few decades.
Our grandkids and great grandkids better have this battery problem worked out by then and they better get over their ignorance and stupid fear of nuclear (which is really fear of the sun) or they are going back to horse and buggies and a shitty way of life. |
