Green Group discussion

Out Of Thin Air: Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in technology to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world? - Alec Luhn

The plan is to remove carbon dioxide from the air. Because there are a limited number of plants built to do this, companies can buy credits which will remove future carbon emissions while they continue to emit carbon.

Some of the plants use the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere to pump oil out of the ground, similar to how fracking works. There are plans to build plants that will be owned by oil companies that will be paid to capture the carbon, process the captured carbon, then pump the carbon dioxide back into the ground to pump out more oil.

There are ten primary greenhouse gasses, water vapor (H₂O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) are naturally occurring. Perfluorocarbons (CF6, C2F6), hydrofluorocarbons (CHF3, CF3CH2F, CH3CHF2), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) are industrial byproducts.

Note that those 10 listed are only the primary greenhouse gasses.
Also released into the air are some more, but not a complete list by any means.

Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
Nitrogen oxides (NOx),besides NO2, various nitrogen-oxygen mixtures
Volatile organic compounds, there are hundreds of these. benzene, ethylene glycol, formaldehyde, methylene chloride, tetrachloroethylene, toluene, xylene, and 1,3-butadiene,
Particulate matter (PM), solid particles ranging in size from visible to invisible to all but the most sensitive detectors
Carbon monoxide (CO)
Hydrogen chloride (HCl)
Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3)
Ammonia (NH3)
Ozone
Hydrocarbons
Various nitrogen and sulfur compounds

All of these substances, and more, have a negative impact on the atmosphere. In small amounts the effects can naturally neutralized. These substances are produced in industrial quantities for 8 billion people which removes the possibility of them being able to be naturally neutralized.

There are programs to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They only work on carbon dioxide because they are only designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The plants to remove the carbon dioxide from the air use a lot of energy to operate which ultimately means more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-

huge-machines-capture-enough-carbon-to-slow-climate-change/

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/202...

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/201...

As you mention, Robert, this only affects C02 and not any other gases such as methane.