Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

In this episode, Andrew welcomes guest Matteo Gazzani from Utrecht University, to discuss the paper "A comparative energy and costs assessment and optimization for direct air capture technologies".

You can check the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.05.023

As always, thanks for listening! And feel free to contact us on twitter @reviewer2geo for suggestions/feedback!

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Thomas Rinder from University of Salzburg, to talk about the paper "The influence of particle size on the potential of enhanced basalt weathering for carbon dioxide removal - Insights from a regional assessment"

You can check Rinder's paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128178

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See you all next episode!

In this episode, Andrew is joined by paper's "Direct Air Capture via Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower" author Xiaoxiao Li, from the Chongqing University.

You can check the paper here: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103375

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In this episode, Andrew welcomes Mei Chee Tan and Hong Yee Low, from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, to talk about their paper Textured carbon capture composite (C3) films for distributed direct air capture in urban spaces.

You can find the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100145

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In this episode, Sudhanshu Jain, comments the paper that presents two methods for the lab-scale formation of aerosols of nanosized particles of precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) with potential for use in Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), a Solar Radiation Management (SRM) technique. You can find the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0205.1

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In this episode, student Gideon Futerman welcomes researcher Daniele Visioni to discuss the event Solar Geoengineering: Warnings from Scientists, Indigenous Peoples, Youth, and Climate Activists that happened on the 9th june 2021. You can check the recording of the event here: https://youtu.be/Sqlt5lqDpY8

Daniele Visioni is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, working with prof. Douglas MacMartin on the newly funded Geoengineering Assessment across Uncertainties, Scenarios, and Strategies GAUSS project. His research is currently focused on studying Sulfate Geoengineering, a form of climate engineering that aims to partially, temporarily, offset the effects of climate change by means of injecting sulfate precursors in the stratosphere in order to reflect a small part of the incoming solar radiation and thus reduce global temperatures.

The article discussed by Digdaya et al is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18232-y

For some background to this research:  

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_860000_en.html

Pengfei Yu is a co-author in this ground breaking paper titled "Toward practical stratospheric aerosol albedo modification: Solar-powered lofting" 

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/20/eabe3416/tab-article-info provides links to the article and all author information. 

Jens Hartmann (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil.) of the Institute for Geology / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at Universität Hamburg / Bundesstrasse 55 / D-20146 Hamburg discusses with Andrew his work on enhanced weathering. Jens has kindly included some fantastic links to his work below.  

1) Goldschmidt-Link

https://2021.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/19

2) Abstract-Link
https://2021.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/6179

3) Carbdown-Link
Introducing “Project Carbdown”: Our first “enhanced weathering” field trial aims to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere — Carbon Drawdown Initiative (carbon-drawdown.de)

Selected publications supporting other concepts discussed in the episode: 

1) Ideas and Perspectives: Synergies from co-deplyment of negative emission technologies

Link (open access): https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/16/2949/2019/

2) Enhanced chemical weathering as a geoengineering strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, supply nutrients, and mitigate ocean acidification

Link (open access)https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rog.20004

3) Figure showing Co-Benefits: Attached. With permission of Jens Hartmann and Thorben Amann.

Tyler Felgenhauer discusses his exciting paper on the politics of solar geoengineeering research specifically in relation to the U.S policy agenda. A must listen.  

Felgenhauer, T., Horton, J., & Keith, D. (2021). Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come? Environmental Politics, 1-21. doi:10.1080/09644016.2021.1933763

Tyler Felgenhauer is Director of Climate Research at the Duke Center on Risk, and a Research Scientist with the Modeling Environmental Risks and Decisions Group (MERDG), at Duke University. His research examines the climate-society system and options for responding to climate change risk in an integrated way, drawing on approaches from systems analysis, modeling, decision analysis, and other analytical methods from public policy, economics, and political science.

Andrew and Walker discussed a wide variety of things - here are some useful links: 

Aluminum increases net carbon fixation by marine diatoms and decreases their decomposition: Evidence for the iron–aluminum hypothesis - https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.11784

Solar geoengineering can alleviate climate change pressures on crop yields - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00278-w

Mission Zero Technologies: https://missionzero.tech

Heirloom: https://www.heirloomcarbon.com

The Future Forest Company: https://thefutureforestcompany.com

CarbonBuilt: https://www.carbonbuilt.com

Running Tide: https://www.runningtide.com

Some links discussed in the program: 

https://www.heirloomcarbon.com 

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/597

https://twitter.com/peteirvine/status/1389199061060829185?s=08

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e1921854118

Discussing her current paper, Clarissa Kroll talks to Andrew about the impact of volcanic eruptions on stratospheric water vapour in the tropics. 

Her paper is currently in review at ACP : https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1191/

Kroll, C. A., Dacie, S., Azoulay, A., Schmidt, H., and Timmreck, C.: The Impact of Volcanic Eruptions of Different Magnitude on Stratospheric Water Vapour in the Tropics, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-1191, in review, 2020.

A great dive into the depths of aerosol dynamics for the Harvard SCoPEx experiment in Sweden, which as everyone knows has just been postponed until 2022. As usual reviewer 2 is right at the heart of the divisive issue of research in this area. See below for the article Colleen has been working on for several years. 

Comments please as usual to twitter @reviewer2geo or @geoengineering1 or clare_nomad_geo

https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/people/colleen-golja

Aerosol Dynamics in the Near Field of the SCoPEx Stratospheric Balloon Experiment

C. M. Golja  L. W. Chew  J. A. Dykema  D. W. Keith

First published: 01 February 2021

https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033438

Eliot Peper is the author of Veil, one of only a handful of novels written about SRM. He talks to Andrew on the show about his interest in the subject, and the creative and business process of being a novelist. This episode is a super interesting foray into a fiction genre of which both of us at reviewer 2 are big fans, (Clare is reading it at the moment). Eliot is a successful writer and has written a number of novels which you can find at his website below. 

https://www.eliotpeper.com

https://twitter.com/eliotpeper

Our guest this week is Mike Wolovick, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Global Change and Earth Systems Science, Beijing Normal University. Mike and Andrew discuss how glaciers might be slowed down using a variety of engineering techniques. See the paper Andrew, Mike wrote

Get in touch with us on twitter @reviewer2geo or Andrew on @geoengineering1 or or me, Clare @clare_nomad_geo 

Papers for Mike Wolovick

Lockley et al., 2020 Glacier geoengineering to address sea-level rise: A geotechnical approach https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2020.11.008Moore et al. (2018):  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03036-4  (Nature comment, three methods)

Wolovick and Moore (2018):  https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2955/2018/   (TC paper, artificial sills in more detail)

Hunt and Byers (2019):  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9831-y   (crude engineering treatment of berms vs thin barriers)

Frieler et al. (2016):  https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/7/203/2016/  (pumping water up onto East Antarctica)

Feldmann et al. (2019):  https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132  (pumping water up onto West Antarctica)

Pippa Gawley is an experienced investor  (with a science and investing background) and here explains the how and why of companies that show promise in climate change tech might be chosen for investment at the gritty starting point. A fascinating insight especially for our academic listeners who should be interested in how interesting tech gets off the ground.  

https://www.zerocarbon.capital/pippa-gawley

Raymond Tan is probably the most prolific and experienced academic ever to have his work rejected by Reviewer 2. Here, he discusses analysis of the impact of large scale Enhanced Weathering on the wider economy and environment (while being rudely interrupted).

Article: On life-cycle sustainability optimization of enhanced weathering systems, The Journal of Cleaner Production 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652621000561

The fantastic @eaterofsun AKA Oliver Morton author of many books and articles including

-The Moon: A History for the Future

-The Planet remade: How Geoengineering could change the world

Oliver chats to Andrew about geoengineering, terra forming and the moon amongst other things. A fascinating podcast and thank you Oliver for coming on the show! 

Comments and suggestions as usual to @reviewer2geo or @geoengineering1 or @clare_nomad_geo

Welcome to another instalment from Zhen Dai, here to talk about her latest paper: 

"Experimental reaction rates constrain estimates of ozone response to calcium carbonate geoengineering" 

Zhen Dai, Debra K. Weisenstein, Frank N. Keutsch & David W. Keith 

Communications Earth & Environment volume 1, Article number: 63 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00058-7?s=03 

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The cost of stratospheric aerosol injection through 2100

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba7e7

Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d

Thank you for your comments. We have shortened and edited the episode. It is packed with news and commentary, some of the articles are below, not all fit under the word count for the podcast description. Please continue with the feedback. 

Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming Nature Geoscience volume 12, pages163–167(2019) https://t.co/L9riE6fgEE?amp=1

 @JesseLReynolds Is solar geoengineering ungovernable? A critical assessment of governance challenges identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

First published: 11 November 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.690

 David Keith tweet

Cool new paper from Tapio Schneider. If SRM interacts with convection in unexpected ways then agreement in GeoMIP models just encourages overconfidence

Solar geoengineering may not prevent strong warming from direct effects of CO2 on stratocumulus cloud cover. PNAS first published November 16, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003730117

 @CEMEX and Synhelion talked with @GlobalCement

Magazine about how they want to replace fossil fuels with #solar heat in cement plants. 

Read pages 26-28: https://globalcement.com/magazine/back-issues/dec-2020

https://solarpaces.org/cemex-and-synhelion-to-demo-zero-co2-cement/… 

 SRMGI/DECIMALS, which supports solar geo research in developing countries. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abbf13…

 JensFriis Lund tweet

I'm in good scholarly company here criticizing Shell's offsetting scheme “Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru https://redd-monitor.org/2020/11/19/worse-than-doing-nothing-shells-redd-offsets-in-indonesia-and-peru/

 "Right now the entities best poised to do this are fossil fuel companies,” @hollyjeanbuck says, "Do we allow them to reconfigure themselves as carbon removal companies – or would that evade reparative and corrective justice?” https://vice.com/en/article/akdvy4/carbon-capture-storage-oil-companies-profit… via @vice

Oil Companies Want to Get Even Richer Sucking Their Own Emissions Out of the Air

Mark Carney oversees blueprint for scaling up carbon market as offset demand soars https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/11/10/mark-carney-oversees-blueprint-scaling-carbon-market-offset-demand-soars/

https://conserwater.com Using our AIs, we are launching the world's first international soil carbon market where corporations, governments and individuals can pay to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, and farmers can get paid to increase their soil carbon levels. Sign up today to fight climate change! 

INEA tweet (Innovation and networks executive agency EU)

Read all about the groundbreaking 

@CarbFix agreements against #climatechange with @Climeworks

& #ONpower to significantly scale-up carbon removal & storage in #Iceland. Article

 https://europa.eu/!CF74DQ Project https://europa.eu/!bR47nP

 D'Maris Coffman tweet/Andrew Lockley paper 

State commissioning of Solar Radiation Management geoengineering https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21550085.2020.1848176#.X7u4G-bp2qM.twitter… 

Published: 06 October 2020

Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science, and Societal Need. A Review of the Literature on Industrial Carbon Removal June Sekera & Andreas Lichtenberger Biophysical Economics and Sustainability volume 5, Article number: 14 (2020) Cite this article

Henning Franke is at the Max-Planck Institute researching the quasi-biennial oscillation in a warming climate. His paper with additional authors Ulrike Neimeier and Dan Visioni  has been accepted for review by Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. 

Differences in the QBO response to stratospheric aerosol modification depending on injection strategy and species

https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-1104/

Please see below links for articles mentioned this week. 

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Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change Michaël Aklin and Matto Mildenberger https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/glep_a_00578 

The Smart Money Is Investing In Carbon Credits

https://www.xpansiv.com/2020/08/27/cbl-markets-launches-global-emissions-offset-a-tradeable-product-and-carbon-benchmark/

Drax expresses support for Northern Endurance Partnership

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/17490/drax-expresses-support-for-northern-endurance-partnership/

Stop an arctic thaw with geoengineering? 

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/10/26/opinion/contributors/geoengineering-could-be-our-last-chance-to-stop-an-arctic-thaw/ 

BIG OIL MORPHS INTO BIG CARBON REMOVAL? 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/carbon-dioxide-removal-industry-could-rival-oil-and-gas-in-climate-fight?sref=twBqzIJU Study is here https://www.unpri.org/an-investor-guide-to-negative-emission-technologies-and-the-importance-of-land-use/6644.article Big money ? Vivid Economics report https://www.unpri.org/download?ac=11980 

PROBLEMS WITH LAND BASED OFFSETS 

https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2020/10/22/up-in-smoke-california-fires-once-again-highlight-dangers-of-forest-offsets/ 

If humans design the planet: A call for psychological scientists to engage with climate engineering. 

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-78671-001

Holly Buck/Jay Fuhrman Article on Adaptation and Carbon Capture 

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2590332220304772 

Richard King and Duncan Brack guest post on C2G CDR should add to, but not replace, conventional abatement

https://www.c2g2.net/land-based-carbon-dioxide-removal-as-urgent-and-as-difficult-a-policy-challenge-as-ever/?_cldee=Y2xhcmVAa2luZ3NzcXVhcmUuY28udWs%3d&recipientid=contact-1df4ecb78a0ceb11a813000d3a4f62e7-c30f04460e334f17b8a1076549383819&esid=37304a9b-1419-eb11-a813-000d3a4f62e7

SUPERWHITE PAINT CAN COOL BUILDINGS EVEN IN HOT SUN 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257749-superwhite-paint-can-cool-buildings-even-in-hot-sunlight/#ixzz6biKFSNAS

Crowther goes in again -Soils and CO2/Biodiversity http://bit.ly/2Np2R5Z

Tim Cadman's details are: 

Griffith: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9679-timothy-cadman

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-cadman-50913917

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Cadman

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9531-5018

Here is the most relevant publication:

Radunsky, K. and Cadman, T., 2019. Governing the Sun: The Challenges of Geoengineering. The International Journal of Social Quality, 9(2), pp.19-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ijsq.2019.090203

Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems

2016-12-01 | book

DOI: 10.4324/9781315442365ISBN: 9781315442365

The Political Economy of Sustainable Development 2015 | book

DOI: 10.4337/9781783474844

Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance: Case Lessons from Forestry

2011 | book

DOI: 10.1057/9780230306462

Representing Whose Access and Allocation Interests? Stakeholder Perceptions and Interests Representation in Climate Governance

Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance

2019 | book-chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97400-2_10Part of ISBN: 9783319973999Part of ISBN: 9783319974002Part of ISSN: 2523-8183Part of ISSN: 2523-8191

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

2019 | book-chapter

Incentives and Disincentives for Reducing Emissions under REDD+ in Indonesia

Pathways to a Sustainable Economy

2018 | book-chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67702-6_11Part of ISBN: 9783319677019Part of ISBN: 9783319677026

Stakeholder Perceptions of the Implementation Capacity of the Climate Change Regime

The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

2018 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781315212470

Afterword: The long road to Paris: Insider and outsider perspectives

Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems

2017 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781315442365

Governance Values and Institutional Integrity

Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems

2017 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: 10.4324/9781315442365

Introduction: Governing the climate change regime

Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems

2017 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781315442365

A comprehensive framework for evaluating the integrity of the climate regime complex

Ethical values and the integrity of the climate change regime

2015 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781315580302

Stakeholder perspectives on the integrity of the climate regime

Ethical values and the integrity of the climate change regime

2015 | book-chapter

Part of DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781315580302

Please see below papers relevant to this interview. 

Comments and suggestions are always welcome: [email protected] @reviewer2geo @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

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Lockley, A., D.G. MacMartin, H. Hunt, “An update on engineering issues concerning stratospheric aerosol injection for geoengineering”, Environmental Research Communications, 2(8):082001, 2020.  Doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/aba944

·  MacMartin, D.G., and B. Kravitz, “The engineering of climate engineering”, Annual Reviews of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2:445-67, 2019.  doi:10.1146/annurev-control-053018-023725

·  MacMartin, D.G., B. Kravitz, S. Tilmes, J.H. Richter, M.J. Mills, J.-F. Lamarque, J.J. Tribbia, and F. Vitt, “The climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering can be tailored using multiple injection locations” J. Geophys. Res. A., 122, 12,574–12,590,2017. doi: 10.1002/2017JD026868

·  Kravitz, B., D.G. MacMartin, H. Wang, and P. J. Rasch, “Geoengineering as a design problem”, Earth System Dynamics, 7, 469-497, 2016.  doi:10.5194/esd-7-469-2016

·  MacMartin, D. G., Kravitz, B., Keith, D. W., and Jarvis, A., “Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from closed-loop control of solar geoengineering”, Climate Dynamics, 43(1-2): 243-258, 2014. (doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1822-9)

Adrian and Andrew discuss game theory, free riding and other essential considerations in a deep dive into Adrian's recent paper entitled "Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely" by Adrien Fabre & Gernot Wagner, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 1 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0492-6

Comments and suggestions are welcome: [email protected] @reviewer2geo @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

Please contact us if you want to come on the show or be a host for an episode. 

Kyle's brilliant paper is:

Kyle Manley, T. Salles and R. D. Müller (2020) ‘Modeling the Dynamic Landscape Evolution of a Volcanic Coastal Environment Under Future Climate Trajectories’, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.550312.

Comments and suggestions are welcome: [email protected] @reviewer2geo @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

Please contact us if you want to come on the show or be a host for an episode. 

An important topic in geoengineering. 

Zhen Dai is on twitter @jenswimsthemoon 

This article explains some of the work she has been part of at Harvard: 

http://sacredsecretuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Sun-Dimmer.pdf 

Comments and suggestions to [email protected] or find us on twitter @reviewer2geo 

or Andrew @geoengineering1 

and Clare @clare_nomad_geo

As usual please tell all your friends and colleagues about the show, and consider coming on as a guest or guest host. Comments and suggestions are most welcome! 

[email protected] 

@reviewer2geo 

@geoengineering1 

@clare_nomad_geo

The links for articles we discussed today are below:  

A World Resources Institute Report: Leveraging the Ocean's Carbon Removal Potential

https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/10/ocean-carbon-dioxide-sequestration

China's 2060 carbon neutrality goal will require up to 2.5 GtCO2/year of negative emissions technology deployment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06723

Microsoft Joins Norwegian Offshore Carbon Capture Project

https://www.oedigital.com/news/482431-microsoft-joins-norwegian-offshore-carbon-capture-project

Carbon capture receives global push from Mitsubishi Heavy

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/Carbon-capture-receives-global-push-from-Mitsubishi-Heavy

UCLA receive $2.9m grant to convert carbon dioxide into concrete

https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/ucla-receive-29m-grant-convert-carbon-dioxide-conc/

Engineering the climate: the controversial science that could cool our atmosphere https://geographical.co.uk/nature/climate

Is Turning Down the Sun a Good Proxy for Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering?https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10504448.1#.X4D7iZS4WCE.twitter

 Thomas Crowther acknowledges criticsim of the trilion trees concept. In a Ted Talk Thomas Crowther: The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity Thomas Crowther: The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity

Amazon Announces First Recipients of Investments from $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-announces-first-recipients-investments-2-billion-climate 

Rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists: Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinctions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/re-wild-to-mitigate-the-climate-crisis-urge-leading-scientists

Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiativehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12864

Gates to a global empire https://navdanyainternational.org/publications/gates-to-a-global-empire/

Carbon Dioxide Removal Law.  An annotated bibliography of legal materials related to carbon dioxide removal and carbon sequestration and use. https://cdrlaw.org

New Research Provides a Better Understanding of How Cirrus Clouds Form https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-provides-a-better-understanding-of-how-cirrus-clouds-form/

Carbon capture ‘moonshot’ moves closer as billions of dollars pour in (concrete) 

https://grist.org/climate/carbon-capture-moonshot-moves-closer-as-billions-of-dollars-pour-in/?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1602710510

A fascinating insight into the effects of the Lakagígar eruption in Iceland in 1783. Claudia discusses in detail the fallout on fauna and flora and also what we might learn in terms of readiness for SRM deployment and the broader governance of the potential downsides. 

Her paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107080 and it has the best title of any paper I've seen for a long time  being "Haze, Hunger, Hesitation: Disaster Aid after the 1783 Lakagígar Eruption" 

Comments and suggestions are always welcome @reviewer2geo  or [email protected] or as always to me @clare_nomad_geo or Andrew @geoengineering1

Please get in touch if you would like to come on the show as a guest or guest host. 

A wide range of interesting things this week - most of the links are below. Please send any comments and ideas to [email protected] or tweet us @reviewer2geo or me Clare @clare_nomad_geo or @geoengineering1 

Intervention in the Earth's systems: Geoengineering

https://diplomacy21-adelphi.wilsoncenter.org/geoengineering-intervention-atmosphere

A report by Delphi and the Wilson centre with essays on solar geoengineering from Simon Nicholson https://twitter.com/simonnicholson4 and Oliver Morton https://twitter.com/Eaterofsun

Oliver Morton Article https://diplomacy21-adelphi.wilsoncenter.org/article/geopolitical-challenges-geoengineering-and-geoengineerings-challenge-geopolitics

"Foreign Policy IS Climate Policy" https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/21st_century_diplomacy_report_spread.pdf

Scientists are exploring ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/06/1009374/asbestos-could-be-a-powerful-weapon-against-climate-change-you-read-that-right/

CO2 Sequestration in Mine Tailings

https://www.mdru.ubc.ca/projects/co2-sequestration/

Eruptions & Emissions cause changes in ocean carbon sinks

A new model explains why the ocean’s capacity to take up carbon was reduced on a decadal scale, by accounting for reduced pCO2 emissions and ocean state changes due to the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

https://eos.org/editor-highlights/eruption-and-emissions-take-credit-for-ocean-carbon-sink-changes#.X3yG88CrTDY.twitter

Using CaO- and MgO-rich Industrial Waste Streams for Carbon Sequestration Joshuah Stolaroff, Gregory Lowry, and David Keith. 2005. “Using CaO- and MgO-rich Industrial Waste Streams for Carbon Sequestration.” Energy Conversion and Management, 46, Pp. 687-699. -David keith commenting that theya re worth pursuing but not huge

Unnatural climate solutions? Nature Climate Change volume 10, pages98–99(2020)

Rob Bellamy on why the hype around ‘natural’ climate solutions threatens us all. His new paper is with Shannon Osaka.  Abstract: Framing solutions to climate change as natural strongly influences their acceptability, but what constitutes a ‘natural’ climate solution is selected, not self-evident. We suggest that the current, narrow formulation of natural climate solutions risks constraining what are thought of as desirable policy options. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0661-z

Steve Smith and reviewer2 debate the merits of carbon offsetting and discuss the new Oxford Offsetting Principles. 

The principles are available at https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/publications/reports/Oxford-Offsetting-Principles-2020.pdf

Comments and suggestions please to @reviewer2geo or @geoengineering1 or clare_nomad_geo. 

Any one who would like to be on the show as interviewer or interviewee or has a burning topic they want us to address, please let us know. 

Derek Lemoine and reviewer 2 have a lively discussion of market mechanisms and negative emissions, in particular discussing Derek's upcoming paper "Incentivising Negative Emissions Through Carbon Shares" available at https://www.nber.org/papers/w27880. 

 A free version of this and other work is available at https://www.dereklemoine.com/

We would love to hear your comments and suggestions @reviewer2geo or directly to Andrew @geoengineering1 or Clare clare_nomad_geo If you have a pet topic or any ideas for the podcast please get in touch. We will be launching a website soon also! 

We hope you enjoy this fascinating discussion. 

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Hello and we hope you enjoy this week's edition of the podcast. We really want your feedback and ideas for the show, and please tell your friends and colleagues how useful and entertaining the podcast is as we would like to have as wide an audience as possible ! If you have a new paper that you would like to discuss, or any comments or suggestions:

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Here are links for most of the headline items we chat about this week. 

International renewable energy agency. 

IRENA (2020), A summary of Reaching zero with renewables: Eliminating CO2 emissions from industry and transport in line with the 1.5 oC climate goal, International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi.  

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2020/Sep/IRENA_ReachingZero_Summary_2020.pdf?la=en&hash=7FD100C3C26E161D6C1217B88C1FB7E847D7F08F

The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Nature volume 585, pages538–544(2020)

Pale Blue Dot Energy and Carbon Engineering create partnership to deploy Direct Air Capture in the UK

https://theacornproject.uk/2020/09/04/hydrogen-in-scotland-the-role-of-acorn-hydrogen-in-enabling-net-zero/ 

BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP -Think small to unlock carbon capture’s big potential 

 https://www.bcg.com/publications/2020/unlocking-carbon-captures-potential

E-FUELS IN AVIATION

https://climeworkscom.cdn.prismic.io/climeworkscom/2a98e4e8-6d4d-4509-91cb-27c5374813b1_Building+a+Truly+Sustainable+Aviation+Industry+-+Accenture+Point+of+View.pdf. Accenture report 

MCKINSEY DOES GEOENGINEERING 

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/driving-co2-emissions-to-zero-and-beyond-with-carbon-capture-use-and-storage#

Norway funds world’s first full-scale carbon capture and storage project

Michelle Lewis

- Sep. 21st 2020 6:27 pm ET

https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/norway-world-first-carbon-capture-storage-project/

https://twitter.com/greenSandco2 OLIVINE CARBON CAPTURE 'GREENSAND'

ALSO SEE https://projectvesta.org Capturing a trillion tonnes of excess CO2 in rock using the power of natural wave energy

THE OXFORD PRINCIPLES FOR NET ZERO ALIGNED CARBON OFFSETTING 

 https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/publications/reports/Oxford-Offsetting-Principles-2020.pdf

FOREST / RESTORATION

LatamList – Pachama, a carbon-offsetting marketplace, secured an additional $5M extension to its Seed round from multiple investors to fight deforestation. The round included investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Aglaé Ventures, AirAngels, and, My Climate Journey.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/commission-under-fire-for-including-carbon-sinks-into-eu-climate-goals/

ALCOHOL 

https://t.co/HmUp2utZvD?amp=1 world's first carbon negative beer - Brewdog 

https://t.co/esUW8omn1c?amp=1 Based out of Brooklyn, Air Co. is making vodka using only air, water and renewable electricity. 

Melissa is an early career researcher who is driven by her ethical goals to work towards climate justice, positing SRM as a controversial yet potential route to alleviate harms caused by climate change. I urge you to read her piece in Medium which can be found here https://medium.com/@msaenger_52203/the-climate-emergency-intersectional-justice-and-the-urgency-of-solar-geoengineering-research-ae26266d7fbb 

Comments and suggestions to @reviewer2geo

or @geoengineering1

or clare_nomad_geo 

An important and enlightening discussion with Evvan Morton about diversity, inclusion and equity in the academy, with particular reference here to the field of geoengineering. 

Comments and suggestions to @reviewer2geo

All things geoengineering that caught our eye this week. We chat about lessons from the pandemic for geoengineering, California wildfires and the dystopian futures unfurling before us, methane munching bacteria, gene editing to curb GHGs, NETs in the EU ETS, the trade off between growth and age in trees (and people), more evidence doubting BECCS and news of attempts to broaden the NETs base in IAMS prior to AR6. Plus there are quite a few laughs and some useful news and tips for geoengineering folks. 

AND we have our own twitter handle now so please follow @reviewer2geo for all future episodes, news and for feedback and suggestions. We would love to here from you with comments and ideas.  

Papers discussed include: 

Holly Jean Buck 'Pandemic Politics -lessons for solar geoengineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00018-1 

Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs R. J. W. Brienen, et al, Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 4241 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17966-z 

Working Paper: The Future of (Negative) Emissions Trading in the European Union Kiel Working Papers, 2164 https://www.ifw-kiel.de/experts/ifw/wilfried-rickels/the-future-of-negative-emissions-trading-in-the-european-union-15070/

Gene Editing for the Climate: Biological Solutions for Curbing Greenhouse Emissions, Val Giddings, Robert Rozansky ,  David M. Hart September 14, 2020 https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/14/gene-editing-climate-biological-solutions-curbing-greenhouse-emissions

Managing Land‐based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration, Duncan Brack and Richard King First published: 06 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12827

Integrated Assessment Modeling of Carbon Removal at ICRLP https://research.american.edu/carbonremoval/2020/09/08/integrated-assessment-modeling-of-carbon-removal-at-icrlp/

Food security under high bioenergy demand toward long-term climate goals Tomoko Hasegawa, Ronald D. Sands, Thierry Brunelle, Yiyun Cui, Stefan Frank, Shinichiro Fujimori & Alexander Popp Climatic Change (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02838-8

At only 17 and already published, Gideon is an impressive and unusual guest on the show. Today he discusses his paper with Andrew on the novel idea of geoengineering and the public trust doctrine. Gideon also talks about his organisation Worldward and his plans for the future particularly in climate restoration. Find the paper here https://cclr.lexxion.eu/article/cclr/2020/2/4 and Gideon on twitter @worldwardglobal 

As usual, please make any suggestions or comments @geoengineering1 or @clare_nomad_geo

Thanks and enjoy the show! 

A spirited and fascinating deep dive into Kate Dooley's paper on CDR and biodiversity. The paper explores a new framework for assessing the impacts (positive or negative) of various methods of CDR on biodiversity and ecosystems, with mixed results. You can find the paper here https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12828 

Comments and suggestions welcome as usual @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo. 

This week we chat about all the interesting articles and news items that have caught our eye...including carbfixing in Iceland, extinction rebellion at Drax, the coming of the carbon-industrial complex and the potential for DAC to be involved in making kerosene, plus much more chat and gossip than can be mentioned here. Comments and suggestions please as always to @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

Reviewer 2 and Walker Lee get into the guts of this paper in a lively discussion. Walker's research breaks new ground in stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, raising interesting questions about a more refined technique that potentially creates surprising socio-economic effects.  The paper is in review, full citation is:

Lee, W., MacMartin, D., Visioni, D., and Kravitz, B.: Expanding the Design Space of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering to Include Precipitation-Based Objectives and Explore Trade-offs, Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2020-58, in review, 2020

As always comments and suggestions are welcome @geoengineering1 and clare_nomad_geo

(reissue of this previously released episode for technical reasons)

Today Andrew talks to Daniele Visioni about his new paper on the Reduced Poleward Transport Due to Stratospheric Heating Under Stratospheric Aerosols Geoengineering. The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089470

Comments on twitter are welcome @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo

Reviewer 2 dives into a fascinating conversation with Jay Fuhrman on his recent paper ‘Food–Energy–Water Implications of Negative Emissions Technologies in a +1.5 °C Future’. The article can be found here http://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0876-z 

Comments on the podcast are welcome - you can find Andrew on twitter @geoengineering1 and Clare @clare_nomad_geo