Directions:Read the following passage.
Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60
words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Whatever happened to the
fight of carbon capture?
Debates
have been going on around the subject of carbon capture. Scientists, especially
engineers and geologists, have strongly criticized green groups who claimed
that carbon capture and storage (CCS) schemes are costly mistakes.
The
scientists insisted that such schemes are vital weapons in the battle against
global heating. They also wan that failure to set up ways to trap and store
carbon would make it impossible to meet the emissions target by 2050." CCS
is going to be the only effective way in the short term to prevent our steel
industry, cement manufacture and many other processes from continuing to pour
emissions into the atmosphere," said Professor Stuart Haszeldine, of
Edinburgh University. "If we are to have any hope of keeping global
temperature increases down below 2 degrees Celsius, we desperately need to
develop ways to capture and store carbon dioxide."
Green
groups claimed CCS would not make "a meaningful contribution to 2050
climate targets". They say CCS was not a reliable way to decarbonize the
energy system and that CCS has a "history of over-promising and
under-delivering". Instead, they urged the construction of more renewable
energy plants to be given priority.
But
the claims were dismissed by engineers and geologists, "These claims are
quite unfair" said Michael Stephenson, director at the British Geological
Survey. "The technology behind carbon capture and storage is fully mature.
It offers us a genuine solution to some of the problems we face in trying to
deal with global warming."
A
government spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said, "We
are committed to meeting our climate change targets in a way that is affordable
and provides secure energy to families and businesses. We are considering the
role that CCS could play in decarbonization of the UK. But we also need to take
government spending into account. CCS had better come down in cost."