I keep reading aticles about new carbon capture technologies being developed, and I can't help but shake my head at the sheer waste of these programs.
If you study ice cores - which contain records of gas concentrations in the air over time, and reference them with well-developed paleoclimatological models, it is demonstrated very neatly how increases in carbon dioxide FOLLOW increases in temperature, sometimes delayed by hundreds of years. A rise in CO2 does not PRECEDE a rise in temperature. Warmer temperatures permit massive increases in metabolic activity as life spreads to additional places, which contributes to the rise in carbon dioxide among other abiotic, geological processes.
Accelerating industrial-scale carbon sequestration is only going to starve plants. If these technologies continue to be developed, there will be a plant extinction leading to a bottom-up trophic cascade.
Contrary to contemporary attempts at redefinition, "fascism" has nothing to do with nationalism or racism. Fascism is just the unholy marriage of totalitarian government and corporate entities. Fascist environmentalism employs the reach and clout of government and large corporations to manipulate the population into supporting one industry over another. Carbon capture tech has nothing to do with right and wrong or saving the earth; it has everything to do with competition between businesses. That is all. All you enviornmentalists out there have been programmed and conscripted to fight for an ideology that consistently fails on its own merit.
The earth warms and cools on its own or as a result of interactions between a variety of geological and cosmic phenomena - notably volcanism, total solar irradiance, and the relative strength of the sun's magnetic field - as it has for billions of years. ADAPT. Species evolve and species are extinguished. You believe in evolution, right? So do I. You know what evolution does? It selects. There are winners and losers. As the earth changes, those who are - by happenstance or preparation - better-suited to survive will be more likely to pass on their genes. My genes will be among them. Something tells me yours may not.
Good luck fighting those tidal forces. I'll be remaining adaptable; getting some sun until it's time to wear a jacket. If you want to waste your time on fantasy, by all means, continue. But you have no right to manipulate data to commit institutional power and other tangible resources to fight atmospheric figments of your collective imagination.
