Instead of stopping emissions like these at an oil refinery in the Netherlands, scientists in Norway want to pump the emissions into the sea. Then it's just a matter of waiting to see what happens.
Any 5 year-old can tell you that if the kitchen sink is
overflowing with water, you have to turn off the tap, not cut a
hole in the floor and let it drain down to the basement.
But the scientists trying to solve the planet's problems are
getting desperate and hell bent on finding a modern technological
solution rather than stopping the problem at the source.
The same countries that are resisting international efforts to
dramatically reduce carbon dioxide and climate change inducing
emissions have cooked up a plan to dump this pollution in the
ocean. A group of researcher institutions from the US, Norway,
Canada, Australia and Japan are funding this mad science experiment
to dump 5.4 tonnes of liquid carbon dioxide into the sea of Norway.
But because of growing international opposition the experiment has
been delayed.
These corporations, who know their technology belongs in last
century, would rather keep lining their pockets while the
atmosphere chokes than do what everyone knows will have to be done
sooner rather than later. Old blokes, old money, old technology,
old ideas - soon to be dead unless the earth's atmosphere loses
out.
It didn't seem to occur to them that this technology is illegal
in the first place.
Dumping industrial waste at sea, including CO2 from fossil fuel
emissions is illegal under the international OSPAR and London
Conventions.
Boneheads.
CO2 is the world's biggest industrial waste product and is
causing more damage to our environment than any other single
factor. Ice caps are melting, sea levels rising, coral reefs are
being wiped out and our planet may never completely recover from
the effects of climate change if we don't kick-start a revolution
in clean green energy for all.
As governments scramble to find the least painful economic
solutions to climate change, this consortium of countries was
quietly working in the background without anyone knowing about
it.
But over the last few weeks, the experiment has been the subject
of concerns in Norway and around the world. The OSPAR commission
also politely pointed out that they need to come up with a common
position on this as soon as possible.
Dumping blocks of frozen CO2 at sea and pumping liquid CO2
through pipelines under 3000m which they expect would sink and form
"lakes" on the sea bed - these are the rational solutions that have
been suggested so that we can maintain an ignorant lifestyle of
energy consumption.
Boneheads.
The delay of the Norwegian experiment is the first step. The
Rainbow Warrior will arrive in Oslo, Norway on Tuesday and we will
meet with the Norwegian Environment Ministry officals and others
opposed to this plan.