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OKIsItJustMe

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12. I hate to break it to you, but...

Reply to NNadir (Reply #11)

Tue Jul 30, 2024, 05:53 PM

Jul 2024

Without “carbon sequestration,” we don’t have a chance. (“Net Zero” is not sufficient. We need “net negative” and that requires a “sequestration scheme” of some sort, whether you find it obscene or not.)

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Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution -- and swindled taxpayers out of billions [View all] Bundbuster Jul 2024 OP

This is so infuriating. They should get a similar treatment as the tobacco companies but with a much higher price to pay Dave Bowman Jul 2024 #1

A much higher price to pay indeed - they're not just killing people, Bundbuster Jul 2024 #3

I'm sorry OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #6

And we're driving less, and smaller cars, even silly little beep beep cars, am I right? progree Jul 2024 #7

You know, Detroit put a lot of R&D into making more efficient engines OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #9

And we subsidize this industry with BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars. Think. Again. Jul 2024 #2

The problem is obvious: oil companies will do anything to distract from the fact that extracting and burning Martin68 Jul 2024 #4

Don't worry. Be happy. Now they're rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen." NNadir Jul 2024 #5

As with many things, it's not quite that simple OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #10

I understand the Haber Bosch process very, very, very well and have written on it extensively and accessed... NNadir Jul 2024 #11

I hate to break it to you, but... OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #12

Well, since it hasn't worked, isn't working and won't work, and is, in my view, just another fossil fuel marketing... NNadir Jul 2024 #13

Without carbon sequestration there will be no history to forgive us OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #14

Thank you for restating your opinion. NNadir Jul 2024 #15

I cited the Scientific position of the IPCC OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #16

Bookmarking /nt progree Jul 2024 #17

I've been saying CC was a distraction, a hoax for years. Brenda Jul 2024 #8