No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change

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No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
By Anthony Watts -February 16, 20230

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On February 11th, NBC News published a story by writers Kenzi Abou-Sabe, Yasmine Salam, and Cynthia McFadden titled “Can giving the ocean an antacid help curb climate change?,” describing ways to artificially induce the world’s oceans to capture and store more carbon dioxide.

Whether artificially altering the oceans chemistry is a worthwhile or valuable goal to fight climate change is unclear, what is fairly clear, it is impractical due to scale, and could possibly produce unintended negative consequences.

The NBC News story is perhaps best summed up in the first few paragraphs of the story:

Just over a year ago, Canadian oceanographer Will Burt was in Fairbanks, Alaska, teaching college students about the effects of global warming on marine life when a former colleague approached him about a startup seeking to use the ocean to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

“I didn’t have to think about it,” Burt said.

https://climaterealism.com/2023/02/no-nbc-news-giving-the-ocean-antacids-will-not-help-curb-climate-change/

[Smokin Joe]

“I didn’t have to think about it,” Burt said.

So, he didn't. (think about it, that is.)

And that's the crux of the problem.

[mountaineer]

Let's see, shooting dust into the atmosphere, dumping Tums in the ocean, tying diapers on cows ... so many real, sensible solutions to a nonexistent problem. 
Ah, science.

[roamer_1]

These people are blithering morons. 

[Smokin Joe]

These people are blithering morons. 

Unfortunately, some where there is a scam artist looking to pull in donations to use these methods to 'save the planet', with an NGO or Foundation or some such.

All we can do is hope they are only looking to pocket the money and aren't actually driven by their cult-like beliefs.

[mountaineer]

Unfortunately, some where there is a scam artist looking to pull in donations to use these methods to 'save the planet', with an NGO or Foundation or some such.
All we can do is hope they are only looking to pocket the money and aren't actually driven by their cult-like beliefs.

I'm sure AlGore is still making millions selling "carbon credits."

[Hoodat]

Seriously?  The ocean is chock full of antiacids.  Idiots.




btw, do they know what calcium carbonate releases when it comes in contact with acid?

[GtHawk]

Awesome idea! Lets F***k around with the chemistry that puts half of our oxygen in the atmosphere, not too mention an important food source. I have a great idea for all these idiots that want to eliminate C02, lets create a well balanced closed biosphere and place all these idiots in it to live...then start eliminating the C02 in it. They can live...or die while testing the idiocy they want to enact on the entire Earth.