http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamescon...ot-democratic/
"Slowly, a scientific expert started to become a dirty word in some halls on Capital Hill. Political and ideological groups became adroit at pretending to include science to push their agendas, resorting to pseudoscience when necessary. The new crop of Google Graduates are their present-day soldiers and are flooding society with so much science noise, it’s difficult to tell who’s a scientist and who’s not."
And to the above... Most carbon capture technologies I've seen peg the COST of carbon capture/sequestration/avoidance anywhere from $80-150/t. A price of $100/t certainly is not unrealistic given that information.