Republican representatives unveiled the “Trillion Trees Act” on Wednesday, the first of what they are framing as a three-part climate plan.
Yes, they are also pushing carbon capture nonsense. Not geoengineering,
Renewable Thursday: Real Carbon Capture through Mineral Geoengineering
but just going on burning carbon and using the resulting CO2 for—something. I don't know. Maybe pumping down old oil wells to get more oil out?
In Indiana, Carbon Taxes You (Not)
As Indiana gasification plant stalls, so does CO2 pipeline
This monster was to be so big that it could justify a CO2 pipeline from Rockport to the Louisiana oil fields, where the CO2 would be pumped into wells to increase yields. The industry says that no coal-fired power plant is big enough to support such a pipeline.
Then there is supposed to be a bill to fund research into such carbon capture, and anything else but renewable energy and storage and electric vehicles and, you know, anything effective.
Climate change is "no longer an issue that's off the table" for Republicans, said Sasha Mackler, director of think tank Bipartisan Policy Center's energy project, speaking Wednesday in New York.
Ah yes, bipartisanship. Like the politicians in the 1850s attempting to create a bipartisan policy on slavery. The Whigs imploded and sank without trace; the Democrats seceded, started a war, and lost; the Republicans evolved from just saving the Union to total abolition with full citizenship, briefly.
Garbage.