Brilliant Billionaires, No. 79. Bill Gates's Brilliant Plan to Block the Sun Blocked

An effort to dim the sun to stop global warming has been scrapped by the Swedish Space Agency, who announced that the program, funded by Bill Gates, has ‘divided the scientific community’ and will therefore not be carried out.

Gates should confine his efforts to culling the population with epidemics and driving the survivors insane with crap software.

The solution to problems resulting from human-caused emissions of carbon carbon dioxide is to stop emitting carbon dioxide, a plan now universally agreed. 

As for the carbon dioxide already added to the atmosphere, the ocean will take care of it, and it will do so at the rate of about 12 billion tons a year. 

How? did you ask?

Photosynthetically. 

Marine algae and cynanobacteria grow by the assimilation of carbon dioxide. When these organisms die they sink to the bottom of the ocean where they form a layer of goop that retains the assimilated carbon indefinitely.

This process of marine assimilation removes about 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. That's equal to about one quarter of current human-caused, carbon dioxide emissions. 

Thus, if as planned, humanity ends net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will begin falling by around 2042. 

Thereafter, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will continue to fall over a period of several hundred years until reaching the pre-industrial concentration of around 280 parts per million, or about 70% of the current concentration.

At that point, we will be back to an equilibrium between all emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, both human-caused and natural, and photosynthetic sequestration. Thereafter Bill Gates will be able to rest easy in his grave. 

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