"HUH?" you say?? Well, this article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal says the Bush administration (you know, the one that pooh poohs the Greenhouse effect and which rejects the Kyoto treaty) has a plan for pumping "global warming" CO2 gas into abandoned mine shafts! I couldnt make this up if I tried:
The Future of Carbon-Dioxide Storage
Might Lie Under West Virginia
By JOHN J. FIALKA
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
November 25, 2005; Page A4
Delegates attending next week's international climate-change conference in Montreal will attack the U.S. for pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, which mandates steep cuts in greenhouse gases. Bush administration officials will respond that they are doing more than critics realize, but the real action lies deep beneath the surface -- in some cases almost two miles straight down.
The White House sees technological progress, more than regulation, as the key to limiting carbon dioxide and other emissions believed to cause global warming. A centerpiece of its effort is a 9,200-foot-deep hole in the ground in New Haven, W.Va
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