Whales Are Just Awesome

Hello world,
Science has found yet another reason to save the whales. They are enormous carbon sinks. All the whaling over the past hundred years has released that carbon, since normally whales would just sink down to the bottom of the ocean at death. The whalers have released a carbon equivalent of 128,000 humvees driving continuously for 100 years. Dr. Andrew Pershing of University of Maine has suggested that in order to encourage countries to save their whales they use a carbon credit system that would help them with carbon limits set by the UN. Carbon credit systems like this are already in place with forests but this is the first time it will be attempted with whales. I can't think of why no one has thought of this before, this is genius! Countries will be falling over themselves to breed whales.
Here's the link;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8538033.stm
Knights and away!