Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

Michael Fuhr gives @geoengineering1 news on what happens when you throw rocks in the sea (yawn). Then they go on a massive rant about how Gen Z academics don't know how to party anymore (yey!). But which one of them ended a conference locked in a laundry cage being rolled through a hotel foyer? Find out, inside. Paper https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1338556 This article is part of the Research...

What could be the eventual scale of the CDR market? What technologies will it use? And how do choices made today affect where it ends up? Robert Hoglund discusses with @geoengineering1 Some works discussed CDR.fyi annual report https://www.cdr.fyi/blog/2023-year-in-review Carbon removal is not a finite resource https://marginalcarbon.substack.com/p/carbon-removal-is-not-a-finite-resource Emergent...

Joshua Schwarz explains how dispersing ice nucleating particles in one tiny region of the tropical tropopause layer off Northern Australia can address around 1pc of global warming. He also discusses his involvement in the SABRE stratospheric flights. Paper: Considering intentional stratospheric dehydration for climate benefits DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk0593 Other papers discussed Pyrocumulonimbus aff...

What is nature? Does it matter beyond its direct usefulness? Do animals only have rights if they're conscious? When did man become morally responsible for environmental degradation? When can and should we fiddle with the natural world? Elliott Woodhouse explains the differing views to @geoengineering1. A blog post is available, summarising his PhD https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/lc3m/blogs/phd-spotlig...

NPC vs IAM. Oliver Perkins explains why simple agent-based models (non playable characters, if you like) might outperform the integrated assessment models that have led to such outlandish predictions for CDR. Paper: Toward quantification of the feasible potential of land-based carbon dioxide removal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.011

The highly prolific Chris Jones thoroughly intimidates the normally boisterous @geoengineering1, while discussing sorbents that can tolerate a wide range of climate conditions. Paper Sub-Ambient Temperature Direct Air Capture of CO2 using Amine-Impregnated MIL-101(Cr) Enables Ambient Temperature CO2 Recovery https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00414 Here's some more links about Chris and the subjects...

Gloria Reithmaier talks to @geoengineering1 about coastal blue carbon, work/life balance, and being a mum in academia. Paper: Reithmaier, G.M.S., Cabral, A., Akhand, A. et al. Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes. Nat Commun 14, 8196 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44037-w

Celebrate Xmas day with Holly, discussing Solar geoengineering research in the global public interest: A proposal for how to do it https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332223005481

How can you make a sunshade stay in place? How can you make it beam down solar power to Earth? @geoengineering1 finds out from Tharshan Maheswaran. Paper - International planetary sunshade concept with a function-integrated and scalable support structure based on coreless filament winding DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/2526/1/012113

Should the army be allowed to blow people up with a volcano? If your geothermal power plant triggers an eruption, is that just a risk of doing business? Should we fiddle with volcanoes to make them safer? Is even researching this opening a can of worms? Gideon Futurman interviews Michael Cassidy (giving @geoengineering1 a month long editing nightmare, but with results we hope you'll like). Paper:...

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Want to know *exactly* how Pinatubo affected ozone? After a marathon 6h edit, @geoengineering1 has finally managed to get this Yifeng Peng interview sounding OK. Paper: Perturbation of Tropical Stratospheric Ozone Through Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chemistry Due To Pinatubo https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103773

Manon Simon discusses her thesis on the legal overlap between cloud seeding and MCB. What can we learn and apply from decades of cloud seeding regulation?

Liam Bullock talks about his Horizon-funded work on slags, tailings and overburden. How can these different wastes be used for CO2 removal? International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control Volume 129, October 2023, 103990 Experimental investigation of multiple industrial wastes for carbon dioxide removal strategies https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103990

Jesse Reynolds shows how many SRM papers overestimate risks and underestimate benefits. Paper: "Communication of Solar Geoengineering Science: Forms, Examples, and Explanation of Skewing" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20530196221095569 More papers are at https://jreynolds.org/

The Radiative Forcing Pattern Effect on Climate Sensitivity https://essopenarchive.org/users/535851/articles/655683-the-radiative-forcing-pattern-effect-on-climate-sensitivity

Emily Sheppard talks about how the nutrients used by seaweed affect its usefulness for CDR. She then plays a violin made of seaweed. Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpy.13381 Kelp violin link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nHGNF_Ar0

How can countries share the cost of cleaning up historic emissions? A croaky Reviewer 2 finds out from Asbjørn Torvanger. What If Country Commitments for CO2 Removal Were Based on Responsibility for Historical Emissions? by Asbjørn Torvanger CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway Energies 2023, 16(11), 4350; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16114350

Andrés Clarens discusses how the CDR industry will spread throughout the US. Paper: Regional implications of carbon dioxide removal in meeting net zero targets for the United States https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aced18

Two guests (with extremely complicated names) discuss the ludicrousest, amazingest paper we've ever had on the show. Yes, they're seriously asking: can we use spider's silk to make giant diffraction gratings for use in space? Amira Omer Mohamed Ahmed Salim Karlsson and Johanna D'Ciofalo Khodaverdian's bachelors' thesis is available at https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A178055...

Lennart Bach returns to discuss his modelling paper on ocean / atmosphere exchange of CO2 with @geoengineering1. Also included is enlightening discussion on getting drunk on expensive beer, whether Tasmania is any good, and if 6 peer reviewers really is enough. Paper: 'Identifying the most (cost-)efficient regions for CO2 removal with Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean" (https://www.authorea...

How does mineral dust affect the climate? (Slight cooling, but it's complicated) What do background variations in dust levels teach us about the likely effects of SRM & CDR? (Lots) Should we try to reduce anthropogenic mineral dust? (Probably not) How does reindeer poo fit into all of this? (You'll have to listen) Jasper Kok speaks to @geoengineering1 about his paper "Mineral dust aerosol impacts...

How do you model aerosol dispersal from an aircraft? Then, how do you integrate that into a climate model? Hongwei Sun explains his thesis to @geoengineering1 Paper: Developing a Plume-in-Grid Model for Plume Evolution in the Stratosphere Hongwei Sun, Sebastian Eastham, David Keith https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002816

How do ratings agencies work? How can you get into the lucrative and rewarding commercial CDR sector? Victoria Harvey from BeZero makes @geoengineering1 jealous with her meteoric career ascent. NB some technical gremlins ruined @geoengineering1's audio quality after about 30m. We don't know why. Sorry! Check out Be Zero's jobs. https://bezerocarbon.teamtailor.com/jobs Read the CDR scaling report h...

Garrett Boudinot (@FGBoudinot) of @vycarb schools @geoengineering1 on the challenges and opportunities of deploying ERW in Africa and India. Paper: "Enhanced Rock Weathering in the Global South: Exploring Potential for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity and Carbon dioxide Drawdown" https://precisiondev.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IGSDPxD-ERW-Enhanced-Rock-Weathering-in-the-Global-South-26-02-23...