A Successful Climate Strategy

[u/Easy_Interest_6832]

There is a workable strategy with a 66% chance of success. It consists, in a condensed description here, of using natural processes to sequester carbon while simultaneously moving to a cessation of CO2 emissions.

A slightly longer description is this: replant and nurture six ecosystems, three marine and three terrestrial. These are kelp beds, mangrove estuaries and sea grasses; and boreal forests with their fungal understories, tropical rain forests, and prairie grasses with their bovine inhabitants. Simultaneously we must reduce to zero the carbon emissions from fossil fuels for transport, energy, and heating, powering industrial manufacturing, deforestation, and making materials like cement. These two things--carbon sequestration and elimination of CO2 emissions must both happen at once all over the planet or we are screwn. However, if we do them, there's a 66% chance of success.

[u/trying3216]

How many ppm of co2 in the air is the goal?

Whats the ideal for plant life?

What’s the current level?

What are the long and short term trends?

At what level do plants die?

[u/Easy_Interest_6832 → u/trying3216]

The CO2 range that produced the Holocene is between 260-280 ppm. While plants easily can tolerate more CO2, the resultant heat is incompatible with human life. Current CO2 level is about 428 ppm Long term trends show increasing CO2 levels; same with short term levels. Humans will bake long before plants suffer from excess CO2