Article 77WG6 If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly?

If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions probes an intriguing scientific question in relation to the climate emergency

Readers reply: Is it inevitable that consumerism will literally fill up the planet?

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

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