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Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Unlike oxygen or nitrogen (which make up most of our atmosphere), greenhouse gases absorb heat radiating from the Earth's surface and re-release ...

Professor Myles Allen, the physicist behind net zero

If you think of it like a product, then it is obvious what we need to do: get rid of the CO2 that fossil fuels generate. They could have improved air quality in ...

Carbon removal technology: our service to remove carbon dioxide

Historic emissions: CO₂ has been accumulating in the atmosphere for decades, contributing to the climate crisis. Technologies like direct air capture can ...

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier - Berkeley News

Capturing and storing the carbon dioxide humans produce is key to lowering atmospheric greenhouse gases and slowing global warming, but today's ...

Is natural gas really the bridge fuel the world needs? - UNEP

Mark Radka (MR): Natural gas is a cleaner fuel in the sense that burning it produces fewer conventional air pollutants, like sulfur dioxide and ...

Air Carbon Capture: a false climate solution promoted by the fossil ...

This is called Enhanced Oil Recovery, and it is one of the main reasons that companies like Occidental Petroleum have invested in the company – ...

Why carbon-capture tech is key to reaching climate goals

Enabling the widespread use of carbon capture will certainly help combat climate change. A recent study by the Center for Climate and Energy ...

Carbon Capture: The Fossil Fuel Industry's False Climate Solution

As we take action to address climate change, the fossil fuel industry is turning to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to protect their profits.

Stop giving Big Oil a carbon fig leaf - Project Drawdown

We will also need some “carbon removal” in the future – where we use nature (with trees or soils) or industrial processes to take carbon dioxide ...

AIRMADE™ Carbon Technology: CO2 Conversion & Utilization

Carbon Utilization Technology like ours exists as the most readily-available solution to end our society's dependence on fossil fuels. It's ready, and we're ...

A review on progress made in direct air capture of CO2 - ScienceDirect

Among all the currently available CO2 removal technologies, direct air capture (DAC) is positioned to deliver the needed CO2 removal from the atmosphere because ...

Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate ... - Drilled

The company's experience before then, the sources said, was entirely focused on enhanced oil recovery — the process of injecting CO2 into a ...

Carbon capture: The oil lobby's Trojan horse at COP28

Oil and gas companies say it's a solution to the climate crisis - reducing emissions by removing carbon from the air, during industrial ...

What is carbon capture and storage? | CCS explained - National Grid

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way of reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, which could be key to helping to tackle global warming.

Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit? - Brookings Institution

We now understand that the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels is warming our planet faster than anything we have seen in the geological ...

California Releases World's First Plan to Achieve Net Zero Carbon ...

Reducing fossil fuel consumption to less than one-tenth of what we use today, a 94% drop in demand for oil and 86% drop in demand for all fossil ...

Methane: A crucial opportunity in the climate fight

Cutting methane emissions is the fastest opportunity we have to immediately slow the rate of global warming, even as we decarbonize our energy systems.

CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Our World in Data

CO 2 and other greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide are emitted when we burn fossil fuels, produce materials such as steel, cement, and plastics, ...

Oil Companies Admit to Contributing to Climate Change

All parties agree that fossil fuels have led to global warming and ocean rise. In the last 120 years, the amount of carbon dioxide (and methane) ...

Fossil Fuels: The Dirty Facts - NRDC

When we burn oil, coal, and gas, we don't just meet our energy needs—we drive the current global warming crisis as well. Fossil fuels produce ...