{"id":44,"date":"2023-04-28T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatestrike.scot.test\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-07-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:43:48","slug":"the-fallacy-of-carbon-capture-dont-be-fooled-by-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/climatestrike.scot.test\/the-fallacy-of-carbon-capture-dont-be-fooled-by-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallacy of Carbon Capture: Don’t be Fooled by the Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
For decades, oil companies have not only hidden knowledge of global warming but also devised a cunning plan to profit from the environmental crisis. Instead of addressing climate change, they came up with the concept of “net zero,” which allows them to subtract some carbon emissions to create the illusion of zero emissions. They introduced “carbon capture,” a clever deception that has earned them billions of dollars in public funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To give their profit-driven scheme credibility, these oil giants convinced the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to include carbon capture and storage (CCS) in their models. However, back in the 1950s, industry experts already knew that oil fields would deplete over time. Fracking and pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) into old wells were expensive and ate into their hefty profit margins. Thus, the great carbon capture scam was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n