Oxburgh discusses climate change at Shell

I was blessed yesterday to have a question up with Lord Ron Oxburgh yesterday. He was down to earth in his approach and he utilised an impeccable chorus of words to describe us his well researched opinions regarding global climate change. Most people already agree that climate change is inevitable or even occurring on this planet. However no-one can predict the degree of its effects of this phenomenon to human civilisation in this century. He said we do need to do something about it now, even though we many not agree on all the main details, the world has recognised that a small diversion in our culture of mostly unsustainable consumption has to change.

What can we do with the carbon emissions which most scientists agree has an effect on global temperatures? Lord Oxburgh discussed about carbon sequestration. This means to pile carbon dioxide units below the earth's deep surface. We can not only just sequester carbon through geologic ways but also from, my favourite, a microbiological means using highly reproductive photosynthetic algae. Reduction of carbon dioxide can also occur with utilising terrestrial carbon. The most promising way is to utilise enzymatic processes to digest useless organic matter such as household waste and coal to fuel like petrol.

All that talk brought me of back to the good old days of biochemistry and microbiology. It's awesome my degree was finally linked with an energy company.