Let nature look after CO2 levels

£22,000,000 project to tackle climate change a complete waste

- MIKE HUGHES

THE government's insane plans to sequester a puny 8.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide under the sea at enormous expense must be stopped.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has pledged £22bn to install equipment to capture carbon dioxide and store it safely underground at sites in Teesside and Merseyside.

But questions regarding safety arise because there are instances of significant failures where carbon capture schemes have broken down and released large quantities of carbon dioxide with serious consequences for the health of the public.

Such schemes benefit only those organising and constructing them. Also it should be noted that such facilities require significant amounts of energy to power them.

Natural processes isolate vastly greater amounts of carbon dioxide without any cost to us. In particular, the annual exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the oceans, vegetation and other sinks dwarfs the government's proposal, highlighting the magnitude of their hubris and the inanity of their plans.