Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide
Another year, another season of so-called climate negotiations. The planet is more than capable of warming, or cooling, on its own without human activities. But the current obsession with minor trace gases, and their supposedly disproportionate effects on the global climate, has infected too many minds to consider such realities at the political level. As a result all manner of pointless ‘remedies’ have to be mulled over.
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Banish fossil fuels, capture their emissions, pull CO2 from thin air—diplomats in Bonn for UN-led climate talks agree there’s too much planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but remain at loggerheads on the best way to reduce it, says Phys.org.
At stake is nothing less than a liveable world: even if humanity caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius—a huge ‘if’—hundreds of millions will still confront devastating heat, drought, flooding and sea level rise…
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