New Zealand's registrar-general of Births Deaths and Marriages Jeff Montgomery a

pproved the church's application to be able to nominate marriage celebrants.

Burning fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) and heating limestone (calcium carbonat
e, CaCO3) to make cement instantly shoot long hidden carbon back into the atmosp
here as CO2.
As well as cycling through living things and the upper surfaces of the planet, a
tmospheric carbon can end up deep underground.
Over very long periods of time and under enormous pressure the carbon from ancie
nt buried swamps becomes coal, phytoplankton becomes oil and gas, and humble sea
shells from things like long-dead coral become limestone.
Under natural conditions, it can take millions of years to release that slow cyc
le carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2, through geological and chemical proce
sses like crashing tectonic plates and the odd belching volcano. But we can spee
d the process up with the lighting of a match.
This adds up to about an extra 6 billion tonnes of carbon each year. Luckily our
plants and oceans can suck up about half that, but it still leaves an annual in
crease that's not showing any signs of slowing despite our slackest attempts to
reduce carbon emissions.
Let's hope the work being done to stuff CO2 back into its box via carbon sequest
ration can provide the missing arrow in the carbon cycle, the one that balances
out those anthropogenic emissions