On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:46:29 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:


http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...006195,00.html



Deep Underground, Miles of Hidden Wildfires Rage


Three blistering fires are blazing through Wyoming's scenic Powder River Basin,
but firefighters aren't paying any attention. Other than a faint hint of acrid
odors and a single ribbon of smoke rising from a tiny crack beyond the nearby
Tongue River, a long look across the region's serene grassland shows no sign of
trouble.

That's what makes the three infernos, and the toxins they spew, so sinister.
Their flames are concealed deep underground, in coal seams and oxygen-rich
fissures, which makes containment near impossible. Shielded from fire hoses and
aerial assaults, the flames are chewing through coal seams 20 feet thick,
spanning 22 acres. They're also belching greenhouse gases and contaminants,
contributing to an out-of-sight, out-of-mind environmental hazard that extends
far beyond Wyoming's borders. "Every coal basin in the world has fires sending
up organic compounds that are not good for you," says Mark Engle, a geologist
with the U.S. Geological Survey who studies the Powder River Basin, "but unless
you live close to them you probably never see them."


Hey! Dump all that CO2 from the gorbal warming thread down that crack!
The fires will go out and the CO2 will be sequestered again!!

Simple!

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