Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

The Cornell Mafia are taking over the Arctic. Walker Lee explains how their high-latitude, low-altitude scheme works. It's an offer you can't refuse.

Can Metal Organic Frameworks and Zeolites be used for Direct Air Capture? Spoiler: no. Paper link https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06924

Tara Righetti discusses her book chapter on enhanced oil recovery and how it can become part of a low carbon future. This chapter is at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72372-9_9

David Morrow shows how you can make up nonsense about Bruce Willis and still get it published in a journal. Next level mastery, for all those who struggle to get proper work published. Paper: From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative Link: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss4/art30/

Can lighting up tropical forests at night store carbon in a practical way? Gao discusses the possibility and its challenges with @geoengineering1 https://esd.copernicus.org/preprints/esd-2021-85/

Sara Vicca schools @geoengineering1 on biotic silicate weathering. He, meanwhile, screws up the audio production to previously unimagined levels of dire incompetence.

Amanda Borth from George Mason discusses whether geoengineering is covered effectively in the media. Reviewer 2 recalls his days of freelance writing, and paints a far less rosy picture of both the media and its cosy political relationship with academia. Paper link https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.2002711

Can your humble bathroom mirror be the basis of a terrestrial solar geoengineering scheme? Ye Tao looks at scaling this simple solution - with the surprise bonus of a huge reduction in solar energy costs, when compared to sulfur aerosols.

What are the social and political barriers to scaling CDR? Symons and @geoengineering1 discuss first-movers and a public goods framing. They then consider obstructions to progress: carbon accounting, climate justice, tech investment, and financial incentives. Paper: - The international politics of carbon dioxide removal: pathways to cooperative global governance. Bryan Maher, Jonathan Symons. http...

Warmed by ocean currents and geothermal heat, Icelandic ice caps are in an unusual situation. How would they be affected by SRM? John Moore from Beijing Normal University is in discussion with @geoengineering1 (who is uncharacteristically well-behaved). Paper: Insensitivity of mass loss of Icelandic Vatnajökull ice cap to solar geoengineering https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-318/

The actual Reviewer 2 Jesse Reynolds becomes our Reviewer 2 and interviews Daniel Heyen on his coalition formation paper. "Solar geoengineering governance: a dynamic framework of farsighted coalition formation" https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgab010

Mariia Belaia is an economist, who used the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) model to argue that over half of climate change may optimally be addressed using SRM. @geoengineering1 is so horrified that he turns into an actual commie, live on air. Paper reference: OPTIMAL CLIMATE POLICY IN 3D: MITIGATION, CARBON REMOVAL, AND SOLAR GEOENGINEERING MARIIA BELAIA, JUAN B. MORENO-CRUZ and DAVID...

David Mitchell explains cirrus cloud thinning in detail, and why climate models without mountains get it badly wrong. There is no paper reference here, but there are some hard lessons about the peer review process! NB this episode has been clumsily edited to disguise various errors made by @geoengineering1

Can natural ocean processes help us understand how ocean CDR might work? Discussion of "Seeking natural analogs to fast-forward the assessment of marine CO2 removal " with Lennart Bach and @geoengineering1 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106147118

Does the carbon footprint of Direct Air Capture negate its environmental benefits? Balint Simon discusses his paper, "Material flows and Embodied Energy of Direct Air Capture". This episode was presented by (genuine expert) guest Reviewer 2 Matteo Gazzani, who even seemed to have read the paper! 10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-bpg5d

Julian Hunt relives the highest of high modernism with his cold war style project to divert northern rivers and deliberately melt the Arctic. This will apparently help global warming - or so he says. Paper: Cooling down the world oceans and the earth by enhancing the North Atlantic Ocean current. SN Applied Sciences DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1755-y [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16202]

Nan Wang explains why bigger CCS projects are more likely to fail. "What went wrong? Learning from three decades of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) pilot and demonstration projects" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112546

News from @gfuterman and @geoengineering1 covering IPCC, Holly Jean Buck & tribalism, Australian MCB trials, Andy Parker on slippery slope, and much else

Global Thermostat founder Peter Eisenberger steamrollers Andrew (@geoengineering1) in this challenging interview about his company's controversial culture, and its relationship with Exxon.

Comrade Rinberg and Comrade Bergman discuss their revolutionary alkalinity concentration swing CDR. This will be deployed after they've organised an uprising to replace the borgeois capitalist hegemony. @geoengineering1 wishes they'd just get on with making some cash out of their idea, so we can all get it sooner.

How do ethics considerations affect the choices made by researchers as they propose and optimise geoengineering models? Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368121000182 Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research” Jude Galbraith

What happens underground, when we try to store billions of tonnes of CO2? Andrew finds out (while noisily defrosting his freezer). Paper: Alkalinity Generation Constraints on Basalt Carbonation for Carbon Dioxide Removal at the Gigaton-per-Year Scale: Benjamin M. Tutolo, Adedapo Awolayo, and Calista Brown. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02733

This episode has it all: Slippery slopes; Santa; Nazis; luxury beliefs; Henry Ford; Putin; cattle raids; and apostrophes. Nearly 2h of tangents and squabbles make this episode our longest and maybe the most on-brand ever. Paper reference: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity - Levi Adelman, et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104141

Andrew gets thoroughly confused, as Thomas Aubry discusses how volcanoes might change in a warmer world. Three papers discussed: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/16/305/2016/ https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/20/eabe3416 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18352-5 Dr. Thomas J. Aubry Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow - Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Research Fellow...

Ron Baiman and Andrew do not play nicely together - they argue, bicker and squabble about geoengineering and a Green New Deal. Paper reference: "In Support of a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy: A Global Green New Deal That Includes Arctic Sea Ice Triage and Carbon Cycle Restoration" Review of Radical Political Economics DOI: 10.1177/04866134211032396