One mystery of global warming underlies all others: Nobody knows precisely where all the world's carbon dioxide ends up every year. 'A quarter of all the CO2 that is emitted is going somewhere, and we don't know where,' said David Crisp at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he is senior scientist for the $270 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory, set for launch next December. 'That raises a lot of red flags.' (Wall Street Journal, Friday)
Lots of carbon unaccounted for? Let's not let details distract us from the real issue: control.
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