Shitstain To Begin Promoting Carbon Capture Technology - Which, BTW, Does Not Exist

[hatrack]

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Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly questioned the science behind climate change, and since November has considered establishing a presidential committee on climate security that would scrutinize the findings of the national climate assessment, an interagency report forecasting grave peril for a warming planet.

“I think something’s happening,” Trump told CBS’ 60 Minutes in October. “Something’s changing and it’ll change back again. I don’t think it’s a hoax, I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s man-made.”

But the White House decision to embrace carbon capture technology amounts to an affirmation that carbon dioxide emissions, created by the burning of fossil fuels, are taking their toll.

A bipartisan group of 12 senators, including four Republicans, this week sent a letter to appropriators requesting the “highest possible levels” of federal funding for carbon capture development. Also on Friday evening, John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works who has led on this issue in Congress, scheduled a committee vote next week on a bill that would “support the use of carbon capture technology, including direct air capture.”

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https://www.kansas.com/latest-news/article228910509.html

Oh, and it's the same "one MILLION dollars!" startup I mentioned earlier in this morning's thead - unproven, scalability unknown, feasibility unknown.

But look! Technology!! Innovation!!

[IndianaDave]

1. I have recently noticed TV ads by ExxonMobil promoting Carbon Capture

They vaguely describe building plants that will capture carbon dioxide to do what natural, living plants do.

They do not mention that they don't really know how to do this, or how very expensive the development of such processing would be. It's a fake and immoral ad to help the uninformed feel comfortable using more fossil fuels. And I find it infuriating.

[Blues Heron]

2. best way to capture carbon is to leave it in the ground in the first place

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[Botany]

3. We get to pay the same companies that put the CO2 into the atmosphere to clean up that CO2?

n/t

[bahrbearian]

4. "how they going to pay for it?"

[The_jackalope]

6. "They" is "We"

So it won't be done. Nobody will pay for an enormous project that has no immediate, tangible benefit
And no, the survival of civilization doesn't count.