Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels

By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog

New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Carbon capture technology is premised on two possible approaches to reducing climate pollution: removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere anywhere in the world, an approach generally known as direct air capture, or removing it directly from the emissions source, such as the smoke stack of a fossil fuel power plant.

Carbon, Climate Policy, and the New Alchemy

By Lee Epstein, Resilience.org

Unless you live under a rock, you know that most reputable geophysical scientists around the world, especially climatologists and those who study the near-Earth atmosphere, will tell you they are very worried about carbon.

Carbon Capture and Storage – A Fairytale for our Time

By Peter Gray, Postpeak Medicine

Wishful thinking is a powerful emotion. That’s why the media and the public love a good news story like this and don’t ask too many questions. We really wish we had a magic wand to wave that pesky CO2 away...

World can Limit Global Warming to 1.5C by ‘Improving Energy Efficiency’

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief

The research suggests that improving energy efficiency – chiefly by saving on everyday energy use – could play a major role in restricting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, which is the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement.

California is Turning Farms into Carbon-sucking Factories

By Nathanael Johnson, Grist

In a grand experiment, California switched on a fleet of high-tech greenhouse gas removal machines last month. Funded by the state’s cap-and-trade program, they’re designed to reverse climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. These wonderfully complex machines are more high-tech than anything humans have designed. They’re called plants.

Climate Change Policy and The Super-Hero Syndrome

By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test

The climate change policy bureaucracy has taken on a magical belief in technology "super-heroes" as the only way to escape the need for immediate, deep, carbon emission reductions.

The Quest for CCS

By Andy Skuce, Corporate Knights

However, many of the economists and experts who have developed scenarios for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) believe that the only way to achieve the two-degree goal in a growing world economy is to invest in large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

The Hidden Agenda: How Veiled Techno-utopias Shore Up the Paris Agreement

By Kevin Anderson, Kevin Anderson blog

The Paris Agreement is a genuine triumph of international diplomacy and of how the French people brought an often-fractious world together to see beyond national self interest.

Can Carbon Capture Technology Be Part of the Climate Solution?

By David Biello, Yale Environment 360

Some scientists and analysts are touting carbon capture and storage as a necessary tool for avoiding catastrophic climate change. But critics of the technology regard it as simply another way of perpetuating a reliance on fossil fuels.

Time to stop investing in carbon capture and storage

By Jennie C. Stephens, Wiley Online Library

Government investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a large and expensive fossil-fuel subsidy with a low probability of eventual societal benefit.