"But if they're dumping carbon dioxide into the air, which is not exactly illegal — what do you do?
But the environmental debt – run up by many decades of dumping carbon dioxide waste in the atmosphere – won't be due for full repayment before 2020, according to the plan from Durban.
Scientists should not be searching for ways to dump excess carbon dioxide into the sea.
They argue that widespread ocean dumping of carbon dioxide could unbalance the aquatic environment.
Others are the indirect consequence of using our atmosphere as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Heads will be nodding across airport lounges, as readers absorb Mr. Friedman's common sense about how America and the world are dangerously addicted to cheap fossil fuels while we recklessly use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide.
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
As Bill McKibben says in his recent article in Rolling Stone magazine, "Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: "global climate disruption".
