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Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4471-7

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As is now generally accepted mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, a modification of the delicately-balanced global carbon cycle, and a measurable change in world-wide temperatures and climate. Although not the most powerful greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO) drives climate 2 change due to the enormous volumes of this gas pumped into the atmosphere every day. Produced in almost equal parts by the transportation, industrial and energy-generating sectors, atmospheric CO concentrations have 2 increased by about 50% over the last 300 years, and according to some sources are predicted to increase by up to 200% over pre-industrial levels during the next 100 years. If we are to reverse this trend, in order to prevent significant environmental change in the future, action must be taken immediately.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Frost, GIS, Geochemistry, Geoinformationssysteme, Greenhouse gas, Reservoir, Scale, climate change, emissions, remote sensing