We should take the debate about climate change seriously — even if only to make sure that the idiots don’t do something stupid about it. There are, after all, those claims that we’ve got to entirely tear down industrial civilization in order that we not boil the whales. That doesn’t mean that we should take every report nor claim about it seriously, and I’ll not be taking a new report about carbon capture seriously either. I actually know something about the subject at hand — how do we suck that carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into rock where it can do no harm?

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