[Discuss] [Mostly OT:] Visualizing Canada's Carbon

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Gee ...maybe we could start by noting the 18,000 government/UN lard 
asses and the various NGO hangers-on and other do-gooders FLYING (on 
somebody else's tab) to Bali (Bali????).
That produced enough CO2 and methane to choke me.
SJF

Arthur Ralfs wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> On 2008-01-22 15:27-0800 pw wrote:
>>
>> ...something entirely off-topic, but most interesting nevertheless.
>>
>>> ...]Requires permanently burying 376,646,357.25 tonnes of wood
>>> to remove from atmosphere.
>> And don't forget the energy cost (and associated carbon emission) of
>> burying
>> that amount of wood).  The big oil companies talk a lot about how they
>> are
>> working on a technical solution to bury carbon dioxide, but I think it
>> cannot possibly work because of the huge energy costs which more than
>> defeat
>> the purpose.  I suspect this is the modern equivalent of the
>> perpetual-motion machine scams, and done for the same reasons (the greed
>> motive).
>>
> Also don't forget the example of the African village (in Cameroon I
> think) that was
> suffocated to death by a cloud of carbon dioxide escaping from an
> extinct volcano.
> Burying gigatons of carbon dioxide as some people are proposing might be
> setting
> us up for an unintended environmental disaster in the future.
> 
> Arthur Ralfs
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