Giving Compass' Take:

· In order to reduce the amount of CO2 being pumped into the air, researchers want to begin stashing large quantities of this gas underground, specifically in Kansas. 

· Is this a viable option in the fight against climate change? How would this idea work? How can donors support further research into carbon capture and storage?

· Check out this article to see how environmentalists feel about carbon capture and its potential.

Large industrial operations — think electrical power plants, oil refineries, ethanol facilities —cough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by the ton. That, in turn, warms the planet.

But now some researchers think Kansas could be a good place to pump the gas underground rather than up in the air.

Carbon dioxide is all around us. Plants use it for food. Humans exhale it. It’s used in dry ice and to make your soda fizzy.

But it’s produced in serious, problematic quantities when we burn fossil fuels — every time we jump in a car and to generate the majority of the electricity we use.

When we do that, we’re taking carbon that was once stored in the ground and putting it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, or CO2.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases help trap heat in the atmosphere. Climate scientists predict that if we keep producing them at current rates, annual average global temperatures will rise by nine degrees by the end of this century. Weather patterns will become ever more severe, the oceans will rise.

Read the full article about stashing CO2 emissions by Brian Grimmett at Harvest Public Media