Climate Stability and Fossil Carbon-Based Energy Production—Unbreakable Opposites? Theses for an Attempt to Systematically Describe the Science of Overcoming Climate Change

Abstract

Recognizing climate change as a consequence of rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, due to massive use of fossil carbon for energy production, has resulted in the need to find alternative sources for energy supply independent from carbon. Success has been poor, and consumption of fossil carbon is rising. Hence, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is increasing, exacerbating climate change. So the question is: what can be done to change this situation so that energy supply remains abundant but climate is not endangered? Biotechnology is appropriate to control atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is the result of natural CO2 movement, technically performed liberation of CO2 from fossil materials, and biologically driven capture of CO2 out of the atmosphere. In this work, basic considerations are made and formulated to elucidate carbon behavior as well as carbon use in relation to its action on climate. Conclusions are drawn considering CO2 in its dual function as waste of energy production and raw material for energy-containing products, suggesting introduction of CO2 waste management, suggesting introduction of global CO2 monitoring, suggesting revision of the connections between industry and agriculture, forestry and aquaculture (AFA), and considering growth of plants on oceanic surface as well as storage of plant residuals on oceanic floor as voluminous reserves for uptake and storage of atmospheric CO2 enabling regulation of climate development.