Just Politics

[DesertDrifter]

You are absolutely right, it has been at least 800,000 years since CO2 levels have been this high. And core evidence is saying that the present rate of change is virtually unprecedented. Also, the past peaks were not associated with massive extinctions, as the slower rates of change made adaptation easier; the present rate of extinctions is known and is alarming to anyone that pays attention. Our Mr. Canada wasn't even a fetus yet when the science was being layed down. But his "secret knowledge" is cute in a sort of Nixonian way.

his Plus in the past carbon levels used to be 5x what they are today and nature flourished.


That is not the phrasing that someone trained in the sciences would say. "Flourished" is an anthropomorphic term... In any ecological system, there are winners and losers, whether that is good or bad is a human construct. Putting even more pressure on our planet that already may be past carrying capacity for humans is just stupid, particularly since we are knowingly doing it.

Not sure what our visiting genius' secret weapon is. Fixing carbon is not easy at the scale that is needed. Plants can only fix so much at a time, since the amount of carbon is several times greater than the ability of biomass to fix it in a short time. Using geologic methods such as using adsorbtion by zeolitic minerals is probably partially feasible, but would probably cost much more than just stopping the dumping of fossil fuel exhaust into the atmosphere. If stopping it has to have an economic consequence to the fossil fuel industry, then so be it...