Giant 'trees' to clear excess CO2'

[Sweetpea]

The scientist who coined the term "global warming" in the 1970s has proposed a radical solution to the problem of climate change.
Wallace Broecker advocated millions of "carbon scrubbers" - giant artificial trees to pull CO2 from the air.
Dr Broecker told the Hay literary festival in south-east Wales: "We've got an extremely serious problem.
He added: "It's a race against time and we are just sort of crawling along at a slow pace." He said some 20 million of the scrubbing devices would be required to capture all the CO2 currently produced in the US.

But he told the festival: "Okay, you say that's enormous, but we make 55 million cars a year, so if we really wanted to we could. Over 30 or 40 years we could easily make that number." After addressing the festival, Dr Broecker told the BBC News website that 60 million of the devices would be needed worldwide at an estimated cost of $600bn (£303bn) a year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7429562.stm

If it works, I'm for it, and the Yanks should foot the bill for ignoreing the problem for far too long.

Or perhaps leave the Amazon alone? We used to have millions of these scrubbers already in the lungs of the planet, the Amazon. I think Global warming isn't just about how much co2 we produce but equally or more importantly how we have eliminated much of what nature provided to remove it.

[terrywit]

load of wank, wants to line his own pocket with part of the £303 billion,

wholesale price for a tree, is 30-40 pence, http://www.albatrees.co.uk/plantspricelist kinda think this would be cheaper & nicer

Agreed Terry. Briatin was once covered with Forests like most of Northern Europe, but cleared mostly for commercial farming, housing, raw materials etc. Lets plant more trees.

[Sweetpea]

Lets plant more trees.

Push some of the immigrants off the edge and we might have room!

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Push some of the immigrants off the edge and we might have room!

Do not waste good composting material.

[Haqa]

If (big IF) the whole "Man Made Global Warming" myth is to be believed, and that carbon dioxide is somehow a factor, then trees may be the answer to an extent (Though they only consume CO2 during the day. At night they consume O2 and expel CO2).

CO2 is not the worst "green house gas" though. Methane is (supposedly) far more potent in this respect. And this is expelled in resonably large quantities by all the animals on the planet (Considerably more than all the cars, planes and factories put together, I think you'll find). Certainly we should halt de-forestation, and I think that a step back from the purely profiteering, globalized, US model, consumer based society would help too. We DON'T need more McDonnalds, we DON'T need everything blister packed in indestructable plastics, we DON'T need PLASTIC bags at the local shops, whats wrong with some nice paper bags, which cost less to the envionment in creation and destruction. If these people (Liar-titions, and the like) really care about the environment, why not start with the simple, quick win solutions -

1) No more super-stores, encorage the existing ones to close and in their place put tax breaks for people opening LOCAL stores (For local people???), so that you don't have to drive all over creation to get there?
2) Tax SUPPLIERS for the creation of plastics, and encorage the use of less unfriendly materials. Prohbit the passing on of these taxes in the form of price rises (After all, this government LOVES new laws).

That'll get the ball rolling, perhaps then we can start to re-focus on how we are going to adapt to climate change - After all, it's a natural process, the natural records in the form of tree-rings (and the like) show that it has happened many times, LONG before people started driving or flying or burning hydro-carbons.

I think Terry is probably on the money, though, Global Warming itself is a multi-million pound a year scam. It's like find the lady - You pay your money, but the hustler always seems to win...

H.