{"id":865727,"date":"2026-08-23T17:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865727\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:08:15","slug":"if-all-car-tyres-were-filled-with-co2-would-this-cut-atmospheric-carbon-significantly-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865727\/","title":{"rendered":"If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly? | Climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

If all the vehicles on the planet had their tyres pumped up with CO2, would this lock up enough carbon to lower the amount in the air significantly? Would there be other issues, such as the carbon cost of trapping it all into the tyres? Chris Coldwell, Lancaster<\/p>\n

Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com<\/a>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If all the vehicles on the planet had their tyres pumped up with CO2, would this lock up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-865727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}