CO2 on the ocean floor. And who cares if it’s good or not

13 June 20213 years ago babelfish

Now I want to give you a taste of how the whole climate issue is dealt with in an a-scientufic and superficial way.

The German federal government wants to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) in the seabed outside Germany. The legal framework for this is already being adjusted, reports WELT , citing the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Economy.

In view of the transport of CO ₂ abroad and its storage, the federal government intends to ratify the amended Article 6 of the London Protocol, the Federal Environment Ministry told the daily. This will allow “the transboundary transport of CO ₂ for storage in the deep sea bed”.

The so-called 1972 London Protocol refers to an international agreement on the prevention of marine pollution caused by litter and other substances. After the ratification of the revised Article 6, however, "changes to national legislation are still necessary" for the purposes of CO ₂ discharge abroad, the Federal Environment Ministry continued.

So the idea of Germany, Belgium, Norway etc is to store CO2 in the depths of the sea, with the prospect that it will re-emerge in 10 or 20 or 50 years and dissolve in deep waters. The effects? Unknown: CO2 dissolved in water produces carbonic acid which compensates for the alkalinity of sea water, damaging invertebrate creatures and corals, but also dissolves rocks allowing it to absorb more CO2. In reality there is no clear theory about the effects of CO2 in ocean waters, exactly as there is no for atmospheric CO2, as no calculation of the socio-economic impact of the Green Deal measures has been done, but who cares. The important thing is to say that you can be "green". A purely ideological choice.

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