What are the risks of carbon sequestration?

What are the risks of carbon sequestration?

Terry Tamminen (Author & Environmental Policy Advisor) gives expert video advice on: What is a "fossil fuel"?; How does our use of fossil fuels cause global warming?; What are "carbon emissions"? and more...

The risk of carbon sequestration is that if we are trying to reduce our greenhouse gases as a society, as a country and we think one way to do it is by allowing power plants to emit CO2 but then directing that CO2 into the ground as a way of sequestering it or capturing it, this CO2 may not stay sequestered in the ground. We think we've done something good for the planet and reduced our greenhouse gases by carbon sequestration, but in fact all we've done is delayed their release into the atmosphere and we've avoided real reductions in carbon emissions from new technology or moving to renewable fuels.