Carbon Capture - Didn't the planet do this just fine?

I tell you what is amazing to me. Carbon capture & storage. Four simple words. The Planet (Gia) has worked hard on carbon capture and storage for millions of years. Having an oscillating climate system until it reached set point - the right point for human and current life forms. From my controls background it looks like a typical control system; a hunt for set point. Well we found the right set point 10,000 years ago and the planet (Gia) did it by storing carbon in the form or Oil, Gas, Tar Sands (Canada), coal etc. So the world has worked at a perfect form of capture and storage. OH! so we want to release it and THEN find a way (better than the planet) to store it AGAIN!!! ha! Why don't we just keep it stored?

How about this for madness. We spend billions on ($2B in Australia's existing budget) on sequestration technology. That means we find a way to store something that was perfectly stored to begin with. In the mean time we make oil and gas scarcer. We reach peak oil. We do that because we can't don't get ourselves off this wonderful drug soon enough. Then we don't have any more oil or gas; BUT we have found a way to store the results of a process we haven't got any input to any more. OK, I got it.... people get committed for less :-)

Whilst we have Bush to thank for the few backward steps, Obama continues to move forward with $624B in Climate Change projects. Save the planet - starting price a few hundred billion? Not bad when you compare it with a cost in Iraq of $720M per day.

Bush was pretty good wasn't he; you must admit. He deferred spending on climate change. No need to save a planet. The most pressing need in his term was to invade at the cost per year of $40B odd each year another country - oh that's right for securing the continued right to use oil; which incidentally will cost $624B this budget year in the USA to start (yes only start) to fix the consequence of its use.

Thank goodness Obama gets it!