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The US is investing more than $1 billion in carbon capture, but big oil is still involved: 1PointFive is helping oversee one plant in Texas. It also has direct ties to one of the world's largest fossil fuel producers.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/carbon-capture-plants-doe/

Knusper,

“1PointFive’s mission is to reduce atmospheric CO2 and help curb global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2050 in alignment with Paris Agreement targets,”

Fucking hell, when even your organisation name is propaganda. This is what would need to happen for that +1.5°C target:

Projection for Global Warming showing that the +1.5°C target would require halving emissions until 2030.

No credible scientist still believes in us hitting that. Not the optimistic ones either.

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JWBananas,
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However, it’s still unclear what underlying mechanisms may allow antibiotic resistance to spread in air pollution. It will be important for future studies to investigate this.

Wat.

Increased air pollution -> More respiratory illnesses - > More over-prescribing of antibiotics -> More antibiotic resistance

Tomassci,
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@JWBananas Or maybe the antibiotic resistant genes are taking a hitch ride on larger particles? I don't know, that is probably unlikely, but we've seen they can hitchhike into the atmosphere.

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