Carbon Dioxide Removal. A BIG loophole for business

Carbon Audits and carbon taxes are coming. And big business knows it. Some are responding by investing heavily in genuine reductions to their carbon footprint. Others are banking on throwing money at carbon offset schemes like large scale reforestation to enable them to carry on business as usual. But with limited suitable land available, that may prove to be a very dangerous gamble indeed!

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[blueberrylane]

For some reason this didn't show up in subscriptions, only when I was looking at your channel! Great content.

[davidcripps]

It's been brilliant to see how your presentation has improved to the point where you are now rivalling the quality of major broadcasters. Well done :-)

[nateengland]

Even with my limited knowledge, I still question Green Peace's scoring of soil capture. I'm not sure what farming strategies they assumed in their scoring, but the best strategy is regenerative agriculture. Several of RA's advantages are no plowing, which prevents the release of huge amounts of carbon each time; keeping a plant in the ground all year long, which puts carbon in the ground all year long; using mulch, which keeps the soil much cooler; feeding their animals crop remains, which means they do not burn their stubble (millions of acres are burned yearly now); improving rain water absorption; and most importantly, saving the farmer money on buying inputs, which means they will keep doing it that way forever. This last money saving advantage means that scoring the soil capture as RED for Permanence/Risk is wrong, IMHO.

[JanneWolterbeek]

This is one of those rare channels that can do a deep(ish) dive and at the same time bite-sized and easy to understand. I am grateful for that and will share!

[Christopherfair]

Here's my suggestion; The companies have to lay out what they're going to do in ten year increments. None of this... "by 2050". Too easy to leave everything for the last year.

[sarcasmo]

I was shouting "Biochar" at the screen, but I do that to every video.

[martyschrader]

_[Is this a re-post? I remember commenting on this before.]_ Mr. Borlace's comment about biodiversity in planting carbon offset fields is spot on. It isn't a valid plan to just spew White Pine or Siberian Elm all over a burned-down field in order to achieve carbon offsetting. Carbon offsets need to be as carefully planned out as any other carbon removal scheme. Remember that, huge oil and power generation companies.

[NatHarwood]

Subbed! I'm a climate scientist, and it's actually quite hard to keep up with the social/mitigation side of things. Excellent work and the perfect amount of detail

[OneAmongBillions]

Your moral and scientific clarity is something to behold. Thank you.

[robroysyd]

Given that CO2 emissions have increased by 50% since 2000 we're still on the wrong trajectory. To get to zero by 2050 we need to build another one of the world's largest wind farms or one 2000MW nuclear power plant every day between now and 2050 . So much of the discussion seems to me to ignore the sheer scale of the challenge and hence the scale of the effort required to meet it.

[clivemitchell]

Regarding biochar not working at scale, I have grown potatoes, beans and carrots in builder's sand mixed with charcoal. There is a lot of sandy land in the world. Methanol from pyrolysis and an increase in fertile land must be a win-win.

[nigelweir]

Carbon capture is a complete joke at present, renewables better way to spend, no need to capture if you don’t release

[doougle]

This video was about as easy to find as rocking horse do-do. :) Thanks for the videos!

[dr.zoidberg]

Reading through the comments makes me very glad that nobody in this comments section has any say in what actually happens.

[curiousg]

Hi there.
I received a notification for your Carbon Dioxide Reduction video 3 days ago. I just haven't watched it yet!
Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Regards, Geoff

[keithralfs]

Hemp would be the best crop, absorbing 1.5 times it's own mass whilst growing (6-9months) - hemp cellulose would be the base for ethanol based airplane fuels - plus building materials, sources of protein etc, and can be grown virtually anywhere - Soil carbon returns the carbon into the soil - there are so many technologies that are understood today - we just need the political will

[derekstannett]

Agree, the most important point here is that the worst offenders who have supported denial are allowed to simply kick the can down the road for humanity in support of continued profit for themselves. CC clearly requires massive research and investment and it could be too many years down the road to be effective and certainly no panacea at this stage. It will have to happen, but can't be an excuse for continued release of CO2 now.

[martinnovation]

"Just" tax CO2 heavily. Globally

[oisiaa]

Great video as usual! Strangely it wasn't recommend to me until today and you only have 1, 800 views. Weird.

[AndrewBlucher]

This didn't show in my feed at the time, but has now, a long way down.