Thursday, November 12, 2009

Beneath the waves: the future of carbon capture and storage | Environment | The Guardian
According to the International Energy Agency, the world needs to fit 3,400 coal-fired power stations with technology to capture carbon dioxide by 2050.
...
One option is to pipe waste gas directly into the sea. In very deep water, scientists think carbon dioxide would form a dense slush that would stay on the seabed for hundreds of years. Wally Broecker, a climate expert at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at New York's Columbia University, says 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide could be safely dumped in the deep Pacific in this way: the amount created by about 16 years of the world's current fossil fuel use.
New Zealand was a friend to Middle Earth, but it's no friend of the earth | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Lord of the Rings country trades on its natural beauty, but emissions have risen 22% since it signed up to Kyoto
Ice age engulfed Europe in months
A mini ice age that hit the northern hemisphere 12,800 years ago and lasted some 1300 years engulfed Europe in just months – and not over a decade as previously believed.
Bangladesh: Poor nations will not accept failure in Copenhagen - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Hasina urged rich nations to help climate vulnerable, poor nations such as Bangladesh in the same way they bailed out economies damaged by the global recession.

"If the developed countries could pump trillions of dollars for reviving the world economic situation, they could surely be equally generous to save us, themselves and the world," she said.
By the way, my foot hurts. (Actually it doesn't, but I predict that it might in the future.) Can I have a trillion dollars too?

No comments: