Comment Re:We really do need to figure out carbon capture (Score 1) 176
FFS
The ocean is a net in gasser. Yes, the Ocean moves more CO2 each year then humans do, but humans are around 9% of this number, not 4% And the number was growing solidly pre-pandemic.
And the ocean is acidifying from this, making the ocean 25% more acidic. "But the ocean is alkaline, so No Big Deal ".. Sadly the life of the ocean is hit hard by the change in acidity, and it mucks with things hard. So dumping CO2 into the ocean is a crap solution, or preventing it's outgassing (same result)
The ocean has been doing the heavy lifting for a while, otherwise the atmospheric CO2 would be around two hundred PPM higher from the last 30 years alone.
A good carbon capture system would be great, but nobody is doing it at a scale that would make a noticeable dent in humanity's net CO2 release.