In a major breakthrough that could help in the fight against global warming, a team of five Indian scientists from four institutes of the country have discovered a naturally occurring bacteria which converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into a compound found in limestone and chalk.
Based on this, Crakar thinks we should just continue business as usual and forget this whole global warming scare thing. (Oh, btw, that’s what he thought that before too)
Now, I don’t know anything more than what it says in the article, but it hardly seems obvious just yet that this is the deus ex machina that will save us all! After all, carbon fixing via iron fertilization of oceans water is not a new concept, but we have not got much past the speculation stage with that one yet. Beware the unwanted side effects!
The article’s details are sparse and the data about energy investment and costs required to scale it up to anything relevant is completely absent, but it is certainly an interesting finding (if it is anything more than a fake story, I have no idea).
Rayalu said the chemical reactions involved in the process have been successfully established while its economic viability, cloning, expression and single-step purification are under study. The team has published its findings in the Indian Journal of Microbiology and its paper has been accepted for publication in the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
This is in the concluding paragraph:
it is nature that has come to the rescue of the human race from harmful effects of global warming
WTF?!? To call that “overly optimistic” is understatement taken to the extreme! Let’s keep the cork in that champagne bottle for a little while longer, shall we?