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truthout: Techno-Optimism and Bad Science in Paris: The Problem With Carbon Capture and Storage

„The[nbsp]negotiating text in Paris contains proposed text about „zero net emission,“ based on the assumption that actual emissions can be neutralized by future „negative“ ones. This is based on conclusions in[nbsp]the 2014 report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to that report, most relevant models predict that „negative emissions“ in the form of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) would be required later this century if we are to avoid more than 2 degrees Celsius of warming.“

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National Interest: Its Time to Discuss Geoengineering

„The meager financing and policy attention that have been given so far to geoengineering partly reflects unease over the playing-God aspect of any such effort, an unease that also affects attitudes toward bioengineering. But turning away from any serious consideration of such measures because of the discomfort of having to make what may seem to be God-like choices is itself a choice: a choice not to use an available technology, and a choice that entails costs and risks that might otherwise have been avoided.“

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Global CCS Institute: The importance of bio-CCS to deliver negative emissions

„The Global CCS Institute has published its annual major report on the latest developments in carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Global Status of CCS: 2015[nbsp]presents the most comprehensive overview of large-scale CCS projects and policy developments, the importance of the upcoming international climate discussions, new technology developments and further progress towards the emergence of coordinated industrial hubs and clusters.„

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New York Times: The Dubious Carbon Budget

On BECCS [&] co. „We need to be honest. This approach relies on some very dubious calculations and assumes the existence of technologies whose risks have not been adequately studied, let alone discussed publicly. Admittedly, not all of the technologies that could be used to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would require enormous land areas or carbon storage capacities. But that does not mean that alternative methods, such as direct air capture or liming the oceans, would face considerably less public opposition.“

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the guardian: Will Bill Gates and his billionaire friends save the planet?

„Gates has also put millions into funding geoengineering techniques—like spraying the stratosphere with sulphate to block the sunlight—that would manipulate the global climate in order to counteract warming. In contrast to the tried-and-true path of the redistribution of wealth and public investment, such gambits tend to be expensive boondoggles (and in the case of geoengineering, a massive risk to the food and water security of billions of people, who just happen to be in the poorest countries of the global South).“

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