A New Way to Combat Global Warming?

CNN reported on a new way to cut down on global warming: by storing carbon dioxide emissions underground, in old oil fields.

Carbon dioxide could be buried underground as a means of combating climate change, scientists have suggested.

The scheme could see millions of tons of the greenhouse gas, which environmental experts say is the main cause of global warming, pumped into exhausted oil and natural gas reservoirs such as those underneath the North Sea.

Now that we have written off the Kyoto Treaty, new ways to combat global warming will need to be found. Aside from the obvious solution of using renewable energy sources, this solution might just work. It has the added benefit that big oil companies such as BP are already interested in it, as they can actually profit from it! Further proof that protecting the environment and running successful business don't have to seen as mutually exclusive goals.