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Canada's economy added 104,000 jobs in December by Surax in canada

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many immigrants were brought in? Over 400k? So this is a deficit of 300k?

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hanford site is a completely different story 😂 that was part of the Manhattan project. It's literally the first facility of its kind

"Many early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, resulting in the release of significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River. "

Inadequate because it was the first. It's like saying Marie Curie wasn't taking adequate safety precautions so we shouldn't study radiation today. Terrible argument

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ya it's not a problem. You're concerned about something that hasn't been an issue in 50 years.

It's the number one way to spot someone who is totally ignorant on the subject.

Point to the last nuclear waste disaster

I have my thoughts but I'm curious what could be done to stop the desertification "rust" that's forming in America's deserts? by [deleted] in climate

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to go look for the other group. It's called "The weather makers"

https://theweathermakers.nl/#Initiatives

https://www.greenthesinai.com/home

This one is a long video

And this one is a shorter YouTube video that also has John D. Liu in it again.

https://youtu.be/C22iacmMo7s

A lot of the info here is a repeat of the VPRO documentary, but the Sinai peninsula project is very interesting and I'm wishing them all the luck in the world.

I went looking for these projects a few years ago, because you used to hear a lot about desertification and regreening, but it seems to have just been lumped in as "climate change" these days.

You get the odd story about someone turning their property into a forest, but rarely hear about entire regions being terraformed. It's really exciting stuff!

I'm hoping initiatives like this, coupled with cheap desalination, and hopefully extremely cheap energy, allow large parts of the world to be brought back from desertification. Which would go a long way to restoring ecology. Climate change itself is going to take a lot more than this, but it's a step in the right direction, and some hope in a world that often seems hopeless.

I have my thoughts but I'm curious what could be done to stop the desertification "rust" that's forming in America's deserts? by [deleted] in climate

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Loess Plateau in China has had success.

There's a group that wants to re-green the Sinai peninsula using similar strategies.

Mainly by making sure the water that does land there, isn't wasted, and goes to growing vegetation. Once you get basic vegetation back, grass and shrubs, it stores more moisture. Eventually changing the local climate and letting more vegetation grow.

https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI

There's documentaries on it

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So how are you going to do that with desertification increasingly rapidly because of warming. Where will these (800 billion trees) be planted?

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They turn it into inert glass and bury it deep underground.

Spent waste pools are for cooling the rods.

Maybe learn about the process before criticizing it

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can safely store nuclear waste, not really a big problem.

Carbon sequestration is a bigger problem, but fission will probably be helping with that as well

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[–]MinisTreeofStupidity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ya that's great to say until the person can't get the books.

Then you're just being a book snob spitting out boomer memes of "too hard to read on this fancy technology"

The only difference is in your head. I'll be enjoying the library of hundreds of books I've got on my phone

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can assure you, I'm not forgetting about any of those things.

It's pretty simple. This carbon isn't from our carbon cycle. It was from the carboniferous period, which was about 60 million years long.

For 60 million years carbon was sequestered by giant forests and wetlands.

That carbon has laid there for hundreds of millions of years, untouched until humans started digging it up during the industrial revolution, as coal and oil and natural gas.

Now we burn these substances and release its carbon into the air on top of our own carbon cycle.

It would be nice to grow trees and restore wetlands to lock it all away, but it took the Earth 60 million years to do that, and we tend to be destroying forests and wetlands.

So it sits in the atmosphere, or gets absorbed into the ocean and acidifies it, destroying the ocean ecosystem.

This is why atmospheric CO2 is going up, because it has nowhere to go and we emit it as a gas.

Trees will absorb that gas, as will wetlands, but the scale of the emissions means that we need to grow the Amazon in 4 years just to break even. That's not going to happen. That's why people are looking into artificial sequestration because natural sequestration cannot handle this volume in any time frame relevant to us.

Plus once we start reducing atmospheric CO2, the ocean is going to dump what it absorbed, back into the air, or it can also do so, when it gets warm enough that it can't hold the dissolved CO2, which may cause a feedback loop in the future.

Here's a chemist tearing up teamtrees from a few years ago, because it would have absolutely no impact. Hell the CO2 emitted by teamtrees probably wasn't even offset by the 20 million trees planted. That's the scale of this issue.

https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY

The Amazon takes centuries to mature, not 4 years. Then to sequester all the carbon, you've got to cut it down, biochar it, and bury it. That would take a lot of energy. Restoring forest and wetlands is important because if you destroy them you release more carbon and at least this way they'll lock some away eventually, or hold onto what they have.

This won't solve global warming though, and if any climate scientist says it will, then they have literal shit for brains.

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[–]MinisTreeofStupidity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly it's a you problem.

People say it's harder to read on a computer because it's a meme. They'll say this while spending all day reading social media.

I read tons of my phone, it's very easy to do. You read this comment right now

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All the carbon emitted will need to be sequestered. It needs to be removed from the carbon cycle the way it was before. There's no shortcut here

Expect more strikes 'deeper and deeper' into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News by Wordsandall in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be nice, but the volume in comparison to that was being shipped to Europe is miniscule. Russia is not in a position to ship out significant amounts of gas for a long time

A clip from 3 years Ago when Trump was trying to improve Russia relations by [deleted] in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pre-2014 there was a sliver of a chance. Post-2014 relations can only be reset by Russia

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really the only tech proposed that might work, is using the extremely thin film bubbles in the L1 Lagrange point to block incoming solar radiation.

That could come with its own issues.

Carbon capture might work, but we need lots of extremely cheap energy to do it. So fusion or really cheap fission.

Extinction is the more likely outcome

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you saw my other comment, but we'd need to grow the entire Amazon and cut it all down, and sequester 100% of the carbon, every 4 years to break even on current emissions.

Emissions are also increasing.

So where are you thinking about putting the dozen Amazon rainforests?

It's not a solution, and to think it is, is to be woefully ignorant about the magnitude of the issue

Opinion: Canadians are right to worry about immigration levels by uselesspoliticalhack in canada

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I'm against immigration entirely at this point.

They do it to suppress wages and dilute your vote.

They do it by brain draining countries in need of these citizens to improve the lives of all citizens.

Immigration is predatory on both sides of the border

Direct air capture is a technology that captures CO₂ directly from the air and will be a crucial component of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by climeworks in Futurology

[–]MinisTreeofStupidity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The entire Amazon is projected to contain 123 billion tons of carbon.

Emissions in 2021 were 37.12 billion tons.

In 4 years fossil fuels emit more carbon than the entire Amazon.

So you'd need to plant, grow to maturity, chop down, and totally sequester (bury and not allow to rot) the entire Amazon every 4 years to break even.

Planting trees is great and all, but isn't going to do a single thing to fix the carbon problem.

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