False Hope. Why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate

The unproven technology for capturing the global warming gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from power station smokestacks and then dumping it underground is still on the drawing board. However, coal and power companies are exploiting the notion of so-called “capture ready” power plants to justify building coal-fired power stations with no guarantee that CCS would ever be retrofitted to ‘capture’ CO2. Coal-fired power stations are the single largest sources of CO2 emissions and the greatest threat to the climate.