Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!
Philip Nolan, the man without a country

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.

Unlike other proposed ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not make the oceans more acid and may be beneficial to coral reefs. The process is a manipulation of the natural weathering of volcanic silicate rocks. Reporting in Nov. 7 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, the Harvard and Penn State team explained their method.

"The technology involves selectively removing acid from the ocean in a way that might enable us to turn back the clock on global warming," says Kurt Zenz House, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University. "Essentially, our technology dramatically accelerates a cleaning process that Nature herself uses for greenhouse gas accumulation."

In natural silicate weathering, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in fresh water and forms weak carbonic acid. As the water percolates through the soil and rocks, the carbonic acid converts to a solution of alkaline carbonate salts. This water eventually flows into the ocean and increases its alkalinity. An alkaline ocean can hold dissolved carbon, while an acidic one will release the carbon back into the atmosphere. The more weathering, the more carbon is transferred to the ocean where some of it eventually becomes part of the sea bottom sediments. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071107074316.htm

"Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives"

Who benefits from "scamming" the entire world community on the issue of global warming and its possible origins being man made?  Is there some prize to be won? 

Now, if this is going to go down the road of "scientists creating a job for themselves" I think we all know that there are plenty of scientific studies that need additional help that could keep people employed for a long time.

I understand the value of certain businesses not wanting to take responsibility for contributing to the problem because they might have to INVEST in improving certain ways of doing business.  Thus, an irresponsible business that is motivated only by "saving money" might want to avoid the possible truth to global warming's origins being man made, but I fail to see what value there is in "scamming" the public in believing that global warming isn't (a) real and (b) man made.

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CHINOOK PASS

what does that mean on this blog?

is >being a scientist< a bad thing?

I have done LOTS of climatology, the science of it--

I find the bulk of this dialog is offensive, since it it not posted to really discuss between peers, but posted instead as a continuation of a left vs right or us vs them kind of rant--

There is lots of discussion and give & take inside of the scientific community, but outside of that most folks just polarize around sound bites they don't even understand--

What is the point of talking about global warming if you don't know what you are talking about, and are not gonna follow any kind of rational discussing it?

Conspiracy?! << that is so whacked (PS if this is a joke thread or something I didn't get it)