There is a company called Carbon Engineering that has a prototype that will remove Kilotonnes of CO2 from the air. They turn it into a carbide and then back into fuel for our gas vehicles and other machines. This is what prompts my question and m hopes. Technology is the way out of this issue.
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As a geologist, I have mapped formations that were created by corals and other means. One is the Paha Sapa Limestone that is exposed in the Black Hills of South Dakota (one one formation out of thousands). It is hundreds of feet thick and extends probably a million square miles. Get your head around how much carbon is in that rock when you know it is mostly CaCO3. So for me, unless this company has land the size of Utah, I don't think they are going to remove "too much". The scale that is naturally removed is enormous.
Word to Wise talks about storing it "underground". WTF??? See what I mean by no concept of the volume of carbon we are talking about.
Our climate isn't controlled or driven by CO2. Only modern pseudo-scientists have been pushing that theory. It falls on its face with just a quick look at the evidence yet we have alarmists that believe it like a religion. For them, that is science.
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Theoretically, plant life will cease if it gets down to 170. I wouldn't try to experiment with that though. Animals don't need much of it since we exhale CO2. But truthfully, we don't know a lot about this, as it is all theoretical.
Cowboy
things will get very cold if we toss out the thermostat. But humans are incapable of achieving that feat.
sam
we'd be in an ice age
Anonymous
We keep on putting more in at an ever increasing rate and you're worried about removing too much? Not going to happen.