Greenhouse gas ocean burial can start Feb 10 - Reuters

[Eugene]

Greenhouse gas ocean burial can start Feb 10

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

Fri Feb 9, 11:32 AM ET

OSLO (Reuters) - International rules allowing burial of greenhouse gases beneath
the seabed enter into force on Saturday in what will be a step toward fighting
global warming, if storage costs are cut and leaks can be averted.

The new rules will permit industrialists to capture heat-trapping gases from big
emitters such as coal-fired power plants or steel mills and entomb them offshore
-- slowing warming while allowing continued use of fossil fuels.

"Storage of carbon dioxide under the seabed will be allowed from February 10, 2007
under amendments to an international agreement governing the dumping of wastes
at sea," the U.N.'s International Maritime Organization (IMO) said in a statement.

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The changes apply to oceans worldwide and could clear the way to more investment
in future subsea carbon storage by governments and companies, despite criticism
by environmentalists that there are few safeguards against leaks.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070209/wl_nm/environment_seas_dc

[Xipe Totec]

1. Dumbest idea since sweeping dirt under a rug

Entombing two oxygens for every one carbon in the process. And where is that oxygen coming from?

Don't hold your breath for an answer...

[Duppers]

2. amen. nt.

nt

[eppur_se_muova]

5. The problem is: will the CO2 stay down? Or will it come back up?

(Loss of oxygen is not the problem -- there is about 500 times more O2 than CO2 in the atmosphere. If we buried ALL our CO2 this would scarcely affect the amount of O2.)

[bluerum]

3. Oh. My. Supreme. Being. eom

[phantom power]

4. Right. And pigs can fly if wing cost is cut and gravity can be averted.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. And if the gasses seep up into the water, further killing the ocean

and thus knocking out yet one more natural carbon sink.. so what, right?