Frankly, the world as we know it is going away, soon.

[Speck Tater]

139. Let's do some math

The current CO2 emissions world wide total 29,888,121,000 metric tons per year.

At 1 atmosphere (sea level) CO2 has a density of 1.977 kg/m3.

At 1000 Kg per metric ton, that makes 15,117,916,540,212 cubic meters.

That volume increases a lot at higher altitudes, but let's just stick with sea level for now.

Using balloons 10 meters in diameter, with a volume of 523.6 cubic meters per balloon.

That would require 28,873,026,242 balloons.

So if you start filling those balloons right now, at the rate of 1 balloon per minute (which is probably impossibly fast) it would take you 481,217,104 hours, or 20,050,712 days or 54,896 years to fill those balloons.

Now the problem is, you see, that's almost 55 thousand years to capture ONE YEAR worth of CO2 emissions. Which means that after working 55 thousand years to capture CO2 you let 54 thousand years of CO2 go uncaptured.

Or put another way, every whole year spent filling balloons at the rate of 1 balloon per minute will, at the end of the year, have captured the carbon emitted in 10 minutes.

To stay even with current emissions you will need to fill 55 thousand balloons per minute, but staying even isn't enough to reverse global warming. We have to lower CO2 in the atmosphere, and your 55 thousand balloons per minute won't do that.