Planting trees to counter carbon emissions won't work

[robkelk]

From what I understand, we're close. Almost ungodly so. Like, another ten years or so of R&D close. ...

We've been ten years away from suitable materials for at least the last twenty years.

Call me when there's a laboratory prototype.

So all the breakthroughs we've been having with carbon nanotubes mean nothing to you?

Not "nothing," but not enough to predict with any certainty a timeframe when they'll be in production, or even out of the lab.

Science takes as long as it takes; it doesn't work to a schedule.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012