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To the Editor:
In two hundred years since the Industrial Revolution, we have pumped gigatons of carbon from stable fossil pools into the atmosphere. If we mean to prevent disastrous acidification of our oceans and warming of our atmosphere, we must now rebury that carbon. Coal is a nearly ideal form in which to sequester carbon; it is known to be stable for geological ages. To dig up this excellent vault of sequestered carbon and then dry to re-sequester it in the unproven form of supercritical carbon dioxide doesn't make sense to anyone who isn't in the pay of the coal industry.
Barry Levine
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