Climate and Carbon, Control or Catastrophe?
Join Prof Stuart Haszeldine and The Geological Society of Glasgow for their upcoming talk, Climate and carbon, control or catastrophe?
About Climate and Carbon, Control or Catastrophe?
The UK Government has, in the last week, pledged nearly £22 billion for projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry and hydrogen production.
Find out more from Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, on the need and challenges to such projects in his talk to the Geological Society of Glasgow.
This talk is free and open to all and gives attendees an opportunity to ask questions of an acknowledged expert in the field.
His talk is as follows:
Scotland and the UK were cradles of the industrial revolution – built on low cost coal energy creating vast wealth and empire. But since the 1850’s and 1930’s, and certainly from the 1970’s it has been clear that huge emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels are driving global heating, creating ocean acidification, causing sea level rise and accelerating dangerous climate change. Combating that that requires: greatly decreased use of fossil carbon, capturing all CO2 released by use of fossil carbon, and replacing all possible CO2 into permanent geological storage. Features of UK offshore geological storage sites will be explained, and can mimic hydrocarbon accumulations. But to achieve this at industrial scales of tens of millions tonnes CO2 per year in Scotland and Europe requires commercialisation equivalent to the present North Sea oil industry. Many successful pilot tests have been made, and recent legal victories in UK courts may now presage compulsory storage enacted on coal, oil and gas company producers. The weakest link remains the timidity of global governments to disturb the profitable status-quo, for harder to explain benefits in the 30, 100 and 10,000 yr future.
Complete success is possible, but unlikely.
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