[SustainableTompkins] best way to store carbon discovered!

[Joel and Sarah Gagnon]

I'm a little surprised that he didn't make a case for a carbon tax, but 
perhaps that idea looks totally impossible given the business-as-usual 
scene he describes.

Joel

At 09:54 AM 12/12/07 -0500, you wrote:
>not a joke: serious policy, economics and science
>behind this. Monbiot's latest and one of his best.
>
>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/12/11/rigged/
>
>
>Rigged
>Posted December 11, 2007
>The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
>
>By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 11th December 2007
>Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer!
>Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled
>across the single technology which will save us
>from runaway climate change! From the goodness of
>my heart I offer it to you for free. No patents,
>no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this
>technology, a radical new kind of carbon capture
>and storage, is causing a stir among scientists.
>It is cheap, it is efficient and it can be
>deployed straight away. It is called Š leaving
>fossil fuels in the ground.
>On a filthy day last week, as governments
>gathered in Bali to prevaricate about climate
>change, a group of us tried to put this policy
>into effect. We swarmed into the opencast coal
>mine being dug at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales and
>occupied the excavators, shutting down the works
>for the day. We were motivated by a fact which
>the wise heads in Bali have somehow missed: if
>fossil fuels are extracted, they will be used.
>
>. . .
>
>FULL ARTICLE AT LINK ABOVE
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