Industry study is where you can stop reading. The industry in question has been lying to everyone about the impacts of climate change for over half a century.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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When they say "we can use carbon capture to create permission to keep on extracting and burning more than we're capturing" believe them.
Carbon capture, illustrated:
Not to say we shouldn't try to pull CO2 from the atmosphere, but I just don't see how we can do that without it also being permission to keep emitting at current levels.
That's why industry people keep yelling about it, even though some very large scale attempts at it were already failures.
They'll keep pushing the scam for the same reason we all have to use paper straws; misdirection.
For anyone wondering whether to click: yes, the article is very critical of this and gives a lot of space to experts who think that this is an absolutely terrible idea. I think the value here is in knowing what the oil industry tries to do and how they try to lie to justify their crimes.