Ok serious question.
If climate change is caused by excess Carbon Dioxide, couldn't we just fix it by releasing an equivalent amount of Nitrogen and Oxygen into the atmosphere?

>>16732850 (OP)
Even assuming this was possible at scale, it'd make the atmosphere denser every year.

>>16732850 (OP)
Even if you don’t believe on climate change, do you really want polluted air like in Asia?

>>16732857
No it wouldn't the excess gas would escape into space and we would have normal CO2 levels.

>>16732850 (OP)
That would not change the partial pressure of CO2.

>>16732886
Retard

if only there were a magic organism we could cover the earth with, that would intake the co2 and output o2 for us to breathe. It could eat dirt and use sunlight for energy, and maybe even some varieties could produce food for us. To reproduce it could form little nodes to be carried away by wind or animals. Better yet, what if there were a single-celled waterborne form, then the water in the oceans and lakes could absorb the co2 for these lifeforms that then take it and make o2 in the oceans for the fish to use.

Obviously a crazy idea, but what if...

>>16732903
plastic solar cells?

>>16732886
consider venus

>>16732903
Plants only act as a temporary storage for CO2. The oxygen they produce comes from the water they consume. The CO2 is stored as glucose to be turned back into CO2 when something eats it.

>>16732850 (OP)
Where do you get all that Nitrogen and O from?

>>16733082
Nitrogen mining.

>>16732903
You realize that it's just a one-time sink per acre covered in forest, right? If a tree in the forest decays, it releases the same CO2. Forests are not CO2 conversion factories.

>>16733083
From where and with what machines?

>>16733086
The Nitrogen caves. Obviously you would just use pickaxes to mine the Nitrogen ore and then smelt it into a gas.

The biggest CO2 sinks on the planet are the oceans and the soils. The oceans are fairly tapped out, so the best chance we have at reducing climate change long term is to restore natural areas, which entails significantly reducing land dedicated to agriculture. Plants die and the organic matter gets mixed into the soil by animals like worms where it produces more topsoil.

Literally all you would have to do is just abandon the farmland. Just stop growing shit one it and the environment will undergo natural succession and reclaim it.

>>16733101
It doesn't fucking matter when we keep digging carbon out of the depths of the earth and burning it. The single most effective move to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere is to stop extraction and consumption of fossil fuels. It's laughable to suggest burying carbon underground, either by natural processes or artificially, when we're extracting tons of it every day and shoving it directly into the atmosphere

>>16732850 (OP)
The problem is (((officially))) too much total carbondioxide and methane, not proportional
There is no real problem though. The earth is greening and healing

>earth gets warmer
>co2 in the oceans is released as it holds less co2 at higher temeraptures

What stops this from entering a weird feedback loop ratcheting up the temps after avery volcano blast?

>>16733386
High CO2 increases plant growth rate which increases the rate they consume CO2 at

>>16732850 (OP)

You're supposed to have anal sex about it.

>>16733336
I said reducing climate change long term. Yes, obviously in the short term burning fossil fuels is what's driving it, but even if we stopped releasing fossil fuels tomorrow the planet would still undergo more warming over decades. The planet is already reaching unlivable levels of warming right now.

>>16732981
did not know this, thanks

>>16732903
I know. And then we could spray the oceans with iron sulfate and supercharge the process and at the same time make tons of food for fish. Truly crazy.

>>16732981
>when something eats it.
Or the plants and algae sinks to the bootom of the ocean and undergoes sedimentation and is sequestered for millions of years, rendered inedible.

>>16732850 (OP)
>an equivalent amount
CO2 is called trace gas because of it's ppm concentration in earths atmo. You have to release one million units of N and O fore 400 of CO2.

>>16732886
That makes ridiculously little sense.
CO2 is the heaviest of those gasses and would be the most likely to stay.

>>16732850 (OP)
Carbon dioxide is released when fossil fuels or hydrocarbons are burned.

To reduce carbon dioxide we must burn less fossil fuels.


It will never happen this is a train that cannot be stopped until the very last drop of oil is extracted out the ground.


Which by current estimates released by the oil companies. States it should be in the next 10-25 years.

Hope it was worth it