Elroy, where things like the Great Barrier Reef are wanted, it would be best not to pour acidic things onto them. But coral islands in the Pacific could happily tolerate such techniques because, as you have obviously forgotten already, [check for Alzheimer's], the CO2 would be deposited at least 400 metres down, and maybe deeper.
Not many people go swimming around at that depth to view coral reefs. Any coral that deep is disposable. It would take umpty megatons of CO2 to dissolve a coral island's foundations. It would take millions of years and the islanders couldn't afford enough oil to do it. And the ocean would wash away the CO2 too quickly - the ocean is VERY big.
Having pipelines going down 400 metres around the world is NOT going to make the ocean acidic. You peeing when swimming at a beach would be a comparable problem.
Anyway, with all the uranium Australia has, and to avoid uranium miles, they might as well build big nuclear reactors for electricity generation rather than ship it to China. They could also build lots of nuclear bombs to defend themselves against North Korea, China and Indonesia, not to mention France. Burning oil in Oz isn't such a good idea.
They also have huge deserts, which for a couple of decades I have been thinking should be covered in 3 metre diameter photovoltaic umbrellas with biofuel and other crops growing underneath. Desalination of ocean water would be economic. Or icebergs could be towed up from the Antarctic and the water pumped inland to the crops and cities which are apparently getting very dry right now [worst in 1000 years they say].
I don't like the format of the blog you linked, which I read when you first gave it - a huge long thing. SI is much nicer for ranting purposes. It also has an ignore function, ban function, scan lots at a time, links and so on. They can come and join my fan club here if they like. You could go and tell the crowd to come to SI if you like. "Omigo-, there's a bloke in SI who really has the word on CO2 - go to this link to learn about the real deal".
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