{"id":589443,"date":"2023-09-01T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/carbon-capture-is-bad-climate-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:30:00","slug":"carbon-capture-is-bad-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carbon-capture-is-bad-climate-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Carbon capture is bad climate policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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White House officials and Democratic lawmakers spent weeks celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>, a legislative package that has been dubbed the most ambitious climate legislation of all time. While that is technically correct \u2014 it\u2019s a low bar to meet \u2014 the political and practical benefits of the law are hard to spot. In addition, there will be more trouble ahead due to an over-reliance on so-called \u2018carbon capture\u2019 technologies.<\/p>\n

Recent\u00a0polls show<\/a>\u00a0the public knows very little about the Inflation Reduction Act, and President Biden gets low marks on climate \u2014 an issue he has repeatedly called an existential threat<\/a>. Beyond sheer partisanship, there are some possible explanations for the muted public reaction; the law\u2019s clunky name does not exactly create a sense of bold action, and the mixed messages sent by the administration undermines any sense of urgency. Lastly, a brutal summer of heat waves<\/a> and extreme weather<\/a> are yet another reminder that things are, to put it mildly, not going well.<\/p>\n