Pipe Dreams
Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?
Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?
The oil industry, Biden administration and even some environmentalists see sucking carbon dioxide from smokestacks and the atmosphere as critical to solving the climate crisis. But the IPCC says relying on it presents a “major risk.”
By Nicholas Kusnetz
![A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen on June 24, 2021. Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images](jpg/carbon-capture_ida-guldbaek-aretsen-ritzau-scanpix-afp-getty-900x600.jpg)