Comments on: CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels: A limestone Challenge

By: Frederick Carle

Frederick Carle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:05:45 +0000

I did not know that. I knew shell was included in the project but not the “funded by” part. It does make a big difference in what will people see of that project.

By: littleblackduck

littleblackduck — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:40 +0000

Why don’t you mention that this ’study’ and the ‘consultant’ were funded by Shell? As in Shell Oil? I find it odd that any hint of Exxon money (via other organisations) is taken as automatically tainted, no matter how solid the science may be, but this just gets swallowed whole? At least be consistent, please.

It’s important to always remember the Law of Unintended Consequences, particularly with ambitions, but completely daft projects such as this.

The very idea of this is simply asinine.

By: A Sea Change

A Sea Change — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:09:13 +0000

You’d have to dump in quite a lot of limestone, though. Try 4 billion tons. Per year. Over decades.

We can’t assume the ecologocial side effects will be benign, either: we have no information on this point.