http://bellona.org/news/climate-change/2015-05-world-bank-report-highlights-necessity-ccs
“We need Bio-CCS to attain carbon neutrality by 2100” "This statement forms a key area of scientific consensus, shared by the IPCC in the 5AR and acknowledged by the World Bank’s report. Achieving the 2°C target will necessitate negative emissions in the second part of this century. This can be achieved through the combination of sustainable bioenergy with CCS. Find out how it works here." GR - So says CCS promoters, completely ignoring numerous other C-negative technologies. "Importantly, the report warns that beyond 2030, the scenarios in which CCS is not available or not deployed at scale, the negative emissions required to keep temperature change below 2°C or even 3°C have to be generated from the agriculture, forestry, and other land-use sectors, creating immense challenges in land-use management." GR - Completely ignores ocean-based C-negative technologies. Who says that C-negative methods must be limited to <30% of the Earth's surface, much of which is already critical for other uses/services? "With regards to decarbonisation of the electricity sector, the report argues that the share of low-carbon or negative-carbon energy must rise from less than 20% in 2010 to about 60% in 2050. This is an increase of more than 300% over 40 years." GR- There is no way this is going to happen if we limit ourselves to making concentrated CO2 from flue gas and storing it in the ground - (BE)CCS. We need to expand RD&D, marketing and policy way beyond CCS. But how will this happen as long as well funded, vested interests continue to sell CCS as the only viable technology? "The report argues that oil and gas companies can in a similar fashion reinvent themselves if they develop CCS technology. A Bellona study has in fact found that the jobs and skills of today’s North Sea petroleum industry could largely be preserved when transformed into a CO2 storage industry." GR - At last, the real reason to promote CCS, whether or not it makes technical or economic sense and can compete with other technologies. The habitability of the planet held hostage by petroleum industry jobs. Sound familiar? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
