In the credit where credit is due department.... JDG
US, EU to seek carbon dumps to fight climate change ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21273/story.htm BELGIUM: June 24, 2003 BRUSSELS - The United States will join forces with the European Union and other countries this week to develop a new technique to fight global warming pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) underground, EU sources said yesterday. The move will be another symbol of rapprochement between the EU and the United States on the climate change issue. They fell out in 2000 when Washington withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. "Carbon sequestration" is a way of keeping CO2 from fossil fuel use entering the atmosphere and adding to the greenhouse effect which prevents heat radiating back into space by injecting it into rock strata, mines or gas or oilfields. On the sidelines of a EU-U.S. summit in Washington on Wednesday, EU Energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio will sign an international charter with the United States and other countries including Brazil, Canada, Russia and China creating a "carbon sequestration leadership forum." "It is a new charter on cleaning up carbon," an EU source told Reuters. In a similar move earlier this month the EU and the United States agreed to collaborate on researching hydrogen power, which could have less environmental impact than other fuels. Some environmentalists are sceptical of both hydrogen and carbon sequestration, saying they will allow the continued use of fossil fuels coal, oil and gas rather than a switch to renewable energies like solar and wind and reducing energy use. Story by Robin Pomeroy _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
