First article on a new Substack: Why carbon capture means we will be paying off fossil fuel companies for centuries

I’ve started a Substack for a number of reasons, one of them being a place to publish articles that for one reason or another never seem to quite fit anywhere else. Yes I could put them up as posts here, but having a Substack just for articles means that, perhaps, …

10 myths about net zero targets and carbon offsetting, busted

The term “net zero” features in every climate policy. Why? Kevin Anderson gives his explanation in this short clip from the climate documentary film The Race is On (carry on watching to hear Kate Raworth diagnose some of the central dysfunctions of mainstream policy). Today, I and 40 other scientists …

Carbon removal is as much of a solution to climate change as liposuction is a solution to obesity

The i newspaper and inews online 26th September 2019. Is this it? Is this the long-awaited tipping point, the moment when a sufficient fraction of society not only wakes up to the dangers of global heating, but starts to demand action? An estimated four million people in more than 160 …

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