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Fossil fuels in a trillion tonne world

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Scott, Vivian, Haszeldine, R. Stuart, Tett, Simon F. B., Oschlies, Andreas·2015·Nature Climate Change

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  • Industrial-scale CO2 sequestration with carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) has not been applied in the past and can be seen as an additional technological option included in scenarios.

    “The latter mitigation option has not been applied in the past. It can thus be seen as an additional technological option that is included in scenarios, but that did not contribute to the past experiences.”

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    The paper discusses large-scale CCS deployment scenarios in “Comparing rates of release and uptake,” but it does not support the claim that CCS had no role in past experience. “Matching carbon extraction with storage” reports a handful of commercial-scale CCS projects, and “Implications” dates intentional CO2 storage for climate purposes at Sleipner to 1996. The paper’s narrower point is that CCS had not yet made a relevant impact at the scale envisioned. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Even 'closed' pathways do not offer completely permanent storage over geological timescales (more than 100,000 years), which gives rise to intergenerational ethical questions.

    “However, even 'closed' pathways do not offer completely permanent storage over geological timescales (more than 100,000 years 25 ), which gives rise to intergenerational ethical questions 26 .”

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    The 'Climate impact of storage timescales' section defines geological-timescale permanent storage as securing carbon for more than 100,000 years, supporting the cited timescale. It does not say that even 'closed' pathways fail to provide storage over that period; it instead describes such storage as permanent. The intergenerational-ethics point has a separate citation in the citing sentence. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Scott, V., Haszeldine, R. S., Tett, S. F. B., & Oschlies, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (DE)
Corresponding author
Scott, Vivian
Venue
Nature Climate Change
Published
2015-04-23
Volume
5
Issue
5
Pages
419-423
ISSN
  • 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
  • 1758-6798
OpenAlex
W2056149355
Cited by
124
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3
FWCI
8.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (acceptedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H022961/1, EP/K000446/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
Keywords
fossil fuels, carbon storage, carbon capture and storage, climate change mitigation, coal, unconventional fossil fuels, biomass, energy density, intergenerational equity, fossil fuel reserves

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