UK News 04-02-2005 who: Chief scientist Professor David King what: Says CO2 gases could be "buried at sea" where: EXETER when: Wednesday snippet: Sir David, the Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government, has had talks with oil companies to reduce the UK`s CO2 emissions by 25% by pumping carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations "into nearly exhausted oil and gas wells in the North Sea," says The Guardian. In other environment news emerging from the conference on climate change at Met Office headquarters, The Independent reports the Friends of the Earth claim that carbon dioxide levels "have not fallen in the UK since Labour came to power in 1997" and research from scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory suggests the British public should prepare "to switch from cod and chips to jellyfish and chips" as CO2 emissions threaten the extinction of "many of the marine species we rely on to eat". [... more]

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