Oil companies are being encouraged to literally sweep their CO2 emissions under the rug with "carbon capture and store" (CCS) technology. Basically the theory is to capture carbon emissions from power plants and divert them into geological formations and the like in order to curb CO2 released into the atmosphere.
A "comprehensive" report released by the UN "[...] estimates the risks associated with underground storage are similar to current practices of storing natural gas and that 99 percent of properly stored carbon dioxide would not leak during the next 1,000 years."
While we're at it, why don't we just gather up all the world's garbage and shoot it out into space? Although we might have already done that once, given the meteorite that hit Peru recently. Meteors do eventually come back around. It might take a couple hundred years, but the sun's gravity keeps a lot of things in orbit.
So, let's say the scientists are correct and it will take at least 1,000 years for a significant amount of stored carbon emissions to leak out into the atmosphere. What about the soil? The water? Not only that, but isn't pent up gas the ignition switch for mega volcanoes like the one in Yellowstone?
And of course, what about 1,000 years from now?
All this just begs the question – do you want the pink flowery band-aid, or the one with a comic book character?
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