Carbon capture and storage has been over-indexed in climate models and IPCC projections that underpin policy worldwide. How did that happen?
Katie Worth
Katie Worth is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning investigative journalist and a reporter at ProPublica. From 2015 to 2021, she worked for the PBS series FRONTLINE on enterprise investigations and multimedia stories about science and politics. She is the author of the book
False Promises: Why carbon capture and storage won’t fix our climate crisis.
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.

