Re: [Phys-l] global temperatures -- a modest proposal

[chuck britton <britton@ncssm.edu>]

On Apr 5, 2009, at Apr 5(Sun) 6:22 , John Denker wrote:
<snip>
> The best part, he says, is that you would only need about
> 15 volcanoes, if you set them off at intervals, one every
> three years.  That's because in 50 years or so, if present
> trends continue, we will have used up all the fossil carbon
> fuels, and the CO2 problem will have gone away on its own.
	How so? CO2 would no longer be INCREASING but wouldn't be sticking  
at the max?
> <snip>
> The acid rain would probably kill every frog in the world,
> and every coral, but they're probably doomed anyway, so
> who cares.

A somewhat similar 'fix' would be to begin massive liquifaction  
efforts and dump the LCO2 into designated deep ocean trenches. The  
trench would contain the liquid with minimal interface with the  
'real' ocean so acidification 'might' not be disastrous. Good  
monitoring of the T profile of the 'dump' might not prevent a Lake  
Niosh event - but could probably predict it well enough to keep  
surface ships from falling into a giant erupting bubble of CO2.

Similarly, we should be dropping our glassified reactor waste into  
oceanic subduction zones.
Returning it to the inner earth - hopefully to not be vented in a  
nearby volcano during our lifetimes ;-)