The scientist who coined the term ‘global warming’, Wallace Broeker, in the 1970′s has come up with a solution to help scrub out all of the CO2 that we are producing – artificial trees. His plan, in full, would cost something like $600Bn a year.

Here’s another idea – what about REAL trees? We have moors in this country that aren’t used for anything, they used to have trees. What about the vast grasslands (steppes) that are generally empty in asia? What about reclaiming the edges of deserts like the chinese have been doing? Plant real trees in these places and it’ll cost a hell of a lot less than $600Bn.

One thing he seems to have overlooked – the artificial trees use plastic. So he advocates getting oil, generating CO2 in creating plastics and artificial trees, to take out the CO2…

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