Whats new this week in the world of geoengineering with reviewer2

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