Burning hydrocarbons has driven CO2 pollution to record levels in 2010. The volume of CO2 is higher than had been predicted. Note: Global Warming Model Predictions if found to be in error, are almost always in error to our disadvantage, growing worse faster, always.
The research was released last weekend at a world conference. CO2 is the main culprit in rising temperatures, caused by; burning coal 44% of it, oil 36%, natural gas near 20%. Methane is just behind as a source, currently mostly from animal gas, but as the tundra thaws it may become the most common. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, with warming and thawing we get more and warmer water surface for evaporation, thus more of it as well.
And we see pollution causes stupidity, Palin yesterday said of pollution, "I love the smell of emissions", and the house committee on pollution suspended it's look into these dangers and instead turned to increasing oil profits to "guarantee our security".
CO2 might (so far tests have not been very good at it and almost all are stopped) be able to be caught and pumped under ground. But burning fossil fuel and catch it, even at 100% effective, would not reduce what we already released over the past 150 years. The only possible way to do it, if you could catch it all for sequestration is burn trees. Plant huge forests of trees, they are the only fast way to absorb CO2, convert power plants to burn wood and catch the shit. You got a better idea?
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