The present study highlights about implementation of
gigatonne carbon dioxide removal technologies. The inextricably tight
connection between global CO2 values and global temperature, delineated and
publicized by James Hansen and others, will finally create an urgency in the
minds and hearts of all people so that global atmospheric carbon capture by the
gigaton can begin in earnest and in parallel with carbon-free fuels, zero
carbon emissions, renewable energy, and even negative carbon emissions,
implemented worldwide. It is a surprising realization to many that a changing
temperature tightly correlates with the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels worldwide
in a linear, lockstep manner with a reversible but very short temporal feedback
loop of only a few decades. A mapping of the past 400,000 years of earth’s
climate history by Hansen, based on the Vostok ice core sampling, offers a
glimpse into this remarkably tight relationship between CO2 and global
temperature levels but also the average sea level over four ice ages that are
clearly delineated in his historic depiction of all three quantities. As his
Table accompanying the graph is analyzed, an equation linking the three
variables has now been generated, yielding a fresh view into how past decades
of hundreds of gigatons of atmospheric increase will continue to affect a worldwide
temperature rise, also called “global warming.” Such an examination inevitably
leads to the conclusion that the true cause of the global "heat-trapping
effect" in physics is the current stored CO2 level, which exceeds that of
1950 by a factor of over 40%. (Note: This article uses both US tons and metric
tonnes, which equals 0.907). The research presented in this review highlights
the role of CO2's heat-trapping ability as the primary cause of the global
warming trend. It also predicts the amount of additional heat that the Earth
will experience if current trends continue, given that CO2 levels are over 40%
higher than they have been in over 400,000 years. The proposed solution offered in this review
is to initiate a 40 gigatonne carbon dioxide removal (CDR) annually in order to
stabilize atmospheric CO2, followed by an expanded CDR effort toward a goal of
100 gigatonnes/year to begin reversing and lowering global temperature. The
process can be scaled up and may someday offer a novel and inexpensive method
for capturing billions of tons of atmospheric carbon that can immediately begin
the reversal of the temperature and CO2 relationship that is so tightly
correlated. In that way, more time could be allowed for the world to convert to
100% renewable energy and thus begin to drastically reduce its carbon
emissions.
Author(s)details:-
Thomas F. Valone
Integrity Research Institute, 5020 Sunnyside Ave., Suite. 209, Beltsville
MD 20705, US.
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here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/raeges/v3/460
