I am uncommitted, but I was puzzled by the vitriolic attack on carbon capture proposals by George Monbiot (Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, 11 October), backed up by a number of readers (Letters, 15 October).
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK’s own Climate Change Committee support a crucial role for carbon capture and storage (CCS). The IPCC extends this to the much more expensive direct air carbon capture (DACC), as opposed to retrofitting to capture at the point of combustion. The IPCC and the CCC are serious bodies with access to the best science expertise. Neither is compromised by financial links to fossil lobby groups.
