Subject: Re: More OXY
You asked for opinions. Here's my opinion:
Overview: I remember being in the weekly chemistry seminar (required attendance for chemistry majors) in 1973 and the topic was on atmospheric CO2 and global warming. Among the specifics discussed was ocean pH and how the oceans carbonate system absorbs CO2. I recently spoke to a professor who cited the oceans of the planet have averaged a 0.1 pH shift towards greater acidity in the past 50 years.

I grew up on a farm, worked for a large Fortune 500 industrial company and the past 40 years been an owner/operator of a manufacturing business in the environmental products space. While this does not qualify me for any kind of thought leadership, it has given perspectives of different sectors. Bottom line: our worldwide economic system depends an ever increasing amount of energy. Period. Similar to a quote Munger made around the time BRK bought into BYD, I feel there are technological answers arising that will ultimately address these issues. The issue is timing. Crushing down CO2 levels, say, in the next ten years is not likely to happen. Instead we will likely see CO2 levels rising for another decade or two because we do not have widespread alternatives available at costs affordable to all concerned. We will have these alternative energy outputs one day and they will replace much of the fossil fuel consumption. When that day arrives is open to speculation. My guess is this is a fifty year or longer change.

In the meantime, driving home last night and thinking about the recent negotiations at the COP (?) conference a concept popped into my mind at how intentional atmospheric particulate emission (think of a man-made equivalent to a volcano constantly emitting reflective particles into the atmosphere) would be a possibility somewhere in the Middle East's oil ownership zone. They have remote islands, have the energy, have the incentives and are not under the thumb of any particular global government. My feeling is this atmospheric work will not happen with any major nation simply because the internal agreement by all concerned inside a nation such as the USA is not possible. I do feel this emulation of what happens when some volcanos erupt can be utilized to counterbalance, in part, the effects of atmospheric CO2, CH4 and N2O. Here is a link to a Sierra Club commentary about this technology and the atmosphere: https://www.sierraclub.org/sie...

Assuming there are readers here who do not know the mechanics of how atmospheric gases affect atmospheric warming here is a good explanation with a listing of the gases most involved. https://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/m...