“The enormity of global warming can be daunting and dispiriting. What can one person, or even one nation, do on their own to slow and reverse climate change.”–— 10 Solutions for Climate Change is a good overview article on the way forward — from Scientific American magazine
“(burning a single gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2).”
Huh? A gallon of gasoline only weighs about 8 pounds. Where does the extra weight come from? Or does 20lb include the carbon cost of extracting and refining the gallon of gasoline?
It’s because the carbon in the gasoline mixes with oxygen in the air…good explanation here: http://www.slate.com/id/2152685/
my attempt at Sequestering Global Warming
If someone could try the land based phytoplankton farm first because I cannot please-ta I am not able to and the can either start with a cement factories CO-2 or some supply of CO-2 as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification