« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change  (Read 661 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,067
No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« on: February 19, 2023, 06:20:07 am »
No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
By Anthony Watts -February 16, 20230

 Share

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/
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Online Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 61,137
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2023, 06:22:33 am »
Quote
“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.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Online mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,154
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2023, 08:58:14 am »
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.  *****rollingeyes*****
Ah, science.
Logged
The abnormal is not the normal just because it is prevalent.
Roger Kimball, in a talk at Hillsdale College, 1/29/25

Offline roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,543
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2023, 11:04:52 am »
These people are blithering morons.  **nononono*
Logged

Online Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 61,137
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2023, 11:14:52 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on February 19, 2023, 11:04:52 am
These people are blithering morons.  **nononono*
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.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Online mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,154
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2023, 01:19:51 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 19, 2023, 11:14:52 am
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."
Logged
The abnormal is not the normal just because it is prevalent.
Roger Kimball, in a talk at Hillsdale College, 1/29/25

Offline Hoodat

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32,492
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2023, 01:30:55 pm »
Seriously?  The ocean is chock full of antiacids.  Idiots.




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

Logged
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-

Online GtHawk

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,552
  • Gender: Male
  • Well EXCUSE me!
Re: No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2023, 02:54:49 pm »
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.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »