The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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I think it’s better just to reduce the amount of methane we produce, isn’t it?

There is R&D happening at several locations right now trying to characterise how much methane a typical tropical forests will emit, and the viability of capturing it, as it could well be more profitable to harvest the forests methane emissions than fell the trees or clear the forest, .................... but only in a hydrogen economy.

As for reducing methane emissions, we should do it but in the wider picture it's a drop in the ocean, we actually manufacture methane for use on other chemical processes, even if we captured all we emit or flare off we'd still need to make it.

Our priorities should be CO2 reduction and CO2 scrubbing, most leading institutes have long accept CO2 reductions even to zero is no longer enough, the latest figures we now have show we must start mining/scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere! Oddly of natures alleged solution "trees" are not going to do it, grass is a better option be it the land or sea version. But they accept now after zero we will head towards atmospheric engineering as the next step, that is CO2 scrubbing, by some means.

A feedback loop has been identified, the better and cleaner we make the environment, the more everything breeds like rabbits including people! Such a pain, people are again the problem, give them a paradise and they will f@#$ and f@#$ it up!