Strategies for Subterranean Carbon Sequestration

Excerpt from the report:

Introduction: The carbon in the fuels that are the lifeblood of modern society was naturally sequestered as coal, oil and gas over a

period of about 500 million years. We began consuming these fuels at a significant and growing rate in the mid-to-late 1800's,

and if we continue at current rates we will exhaust the resource in about 500 years. Consequently waste CO2 now flows into the

atmosphere at a vast and sustained rate. This human waste stream is partially absorbed by the biosphere, some is absorbed

 into the oceans and the earth, and the remainder increases the atmospheric CO2 concentration. While similarly huge

 CO2 emissions may have occurred sporadically in the geologic past (volcanic activity or melting of clatherite deposits can cause

large emissions) it is unlikely that the modern biosphere has evolved to handle such large sustained emissions. If man doesn't

intercede to staunch this flow of CO2, the result will likely be climate change and instability.