Copy-Paste Reporting
By B, The Honest Sorcerer
Fossil fuel companies often reach for the tools of greenwashing, but this particular instance unintentionally drops a tiny hint on a completely different story in the background.
Tag: carbon capture and storage
Why net zero carbon capture contraptions are absurd
By Alice Friedemann, energyskeptic.com
These reports show that the two most popular carbon dioxide removal methods likely to be funded, with taxpayer money, generate more CO2 than they capture.
The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics
By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog
As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy.
Huge carbon capture pipeline network proposed: Industry’s ‘delay-and-fail strategy’ rises again
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The fossil fuel industry has been exceptionally proficient at delaying actions which would curb our appetite for fossil fuels or which would actually address climate change by dramatically reducing carbon emissions.
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.
