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ProPublica
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NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

projects.propublica.orgFalse Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won't WorkAs global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound practical, there is no conceivable way it can work.

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Howgar
@howgar.bsky.social

Big oil owners have knowingly heated up the planet when they convinced everyone to call it the meaningless “climate change” instead of global warming like Al Gore labeled it

Safron
@safron2024.bsky.social

With all the earthquakes & volcanic activity going on burying the carbon dioxide in the earth seems a bit crazy. Solving 1 problem & potentially creating another is not a solution.

Rocky Mtn Rambler
@rockymtnrambler.bsky.social

I think it’s worthy and important research. But, like the “plant a billion trees!” campaign, it unfortunately diverts public attention away from our number 1 priority: reduce our GHG production as quickly as possible.

Good Grief
@ignominious.bsky.social

The thing about fossil fuels is they never made a ton of sense after a certain point. Even if you ignore poisoning and heating the planet, it was always bonkers. The shit’s going to run out. Addicting the public to a substance you know is finite has always been straight up batshit crazy.

runner9.bsky.social
@runner9.bsky.social

One would think by this point humanity would have at least diversified energy sources to incorporate wind and solar in the grid. These technologies have already proven to work and nobody prevented the oil barons from investing & profiting from the transition to wind/solar too.

Philip "Rick" Henika
@7r-ick.bsky.social

“Carbon dioxide levels in the ocean are increasing today at a rate which, when appropriately re-scaled, is similar to rates of carbon-cycle change that are just lower than those associated with major extinction events in the past,” Rothman says. news.mit.edu/2026/when-en...

news.mit.eduWhat happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?Researchers modeled the connection between evolutionary adaptation and the pace of environmental change at the global scale, and showed how the relationship between these two things can determine life...
Debs
@debsgardner.bsky.social

My understanding is that although carbon capture of NEW emissions has all the problems this covers, some carbon removal would be needed even if we stopped all emissions today—due to EXISTING levels. How can we keep that nuance so we don’t throw out carbon removal with the carbon-capture bathwater?

A Sentient Pile of Spaghetti
@spagritty.bsky.social

I've always felt that if carbon capture was going to be practical it would mean finding a business model where it was profitable. Due to the scale of the problem, doing it for free would be too expensive. Something like breaking out the carbon itself and making it into a building material.