The authors of the article argue for an interesting method to "eliminate up to one sixth of overall [global] warming". How practical or thoroughly thought through the plan is, I have no idea.
The authors of the article argue for an interesting method to "eliminate up to one sixth of overall [global] warming". How practical or thoroughly thought through the plan is, I have no idea.
it's a good idea in theory that will probably never see the rubber hit the road in practice for the very reasons they describe: it's hard enough to get corporations and countries to deal with...
it's a good idea in theory that will probably never see the rubber hit the road in practice for the very reasons they describe:
What we propose will not be easy to accomplish. Methane is uncommon: whereas the atmosphere currently holds more than 400 molecules of carbon dioxide for every million molecules of air, methane accounts for only two or so out of a million. That makes pulling it from the atmosphere harder than keeping it from entering in the first place. We will need other things to work as well. To give companies, governments and individuals financial incentives to do this, there has to be a price on carbon or a policy mandate to pay for removing methane. We also need research on the large arrays needed to capture methane from air. And of course, we need to fix methane leaks and limit emissions from other human sources. But we cannot eliminate those emissions entirely, so we would have to continue removing methane from the atmosphere indefinitely.
it's hard enough to get corporations and countries to deal with their carbon emissions, and the problems with those have been sold to people for decades at this point. i suspect methane will be similar in that regard.
The authors of the article argue for an interesting method to "eliminate up to one sixth of overall [global] warming". How practical or thoroughly thought through the plan is, I have no idea.
it's a good idea in theory that will probably never see the rubber hit the road in practice for the very reasons they describe:
it's hard enough to get corporations and countries to deal with their carbon emissions, and the problems with those have been sold to people for decades at this point. i suspect methane will be similar in that regard.