Re: [geo] Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive

Indeed, there are impacts and negatives to current bioenergy, but to take BE off the table would seem rather drastic, and assumes that BE can't be made safer/better and can contribute at some scale. Meantime, the report counters IPCC et al's love affair with BECCS. This is why a much broader

Re: [geo] going to the CoP?

For those of us not going, who (from our community) will be blogging and where?Thanks,Greg From: Michael Thompson To: Geoengineering Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:28 AM Subject: [geo] going to the CoP? Hi all, 

[geo] Newlight Signs 20-Year Contract for 19 Billion Pounds of AirCarbon PHA -- LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/newlight-signs-20-year-contract-for-19-billion-pounds-of-aircarbon-pha-300111498.html Newlight Signs 20-Year Contract for 19 Billion Pounds of AirCarbon PHAOff-take agreement with Vinmar is a milestone for carbon capture efforts and meeting the growing

[geo] Beyond emissions: The promise of products from captured carbon

Poster's note : interesting discussion of the Air Carbon DAC plastics project. I didn't know it was commercial scale http://www.greenbiz.com/article/beyond-emissions-promise-products-captured-carbon?utm_content=buffere0dc3_medium=social_source=twitter.com_campaign=buffer Beyond emissions: The

[geo] Jones: Climatic impacts of stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate, black carbon and titania injection

http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/30043/2015/acpd-15-30043-2015.html 03 Nov 2015 Climatic impacts of stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate, black carbon and titania injection A. C. Jones, J. M. Haywood, and A. Jones Abstract. In this paper, we examine the potential climatic effects

RE: [geo] Offtopic klein - Potential Liability of Governments for Failure to Prepare for Climate Change

Climate change liability been discussed by legal scholars for about 10 years. (There are two good edited books on the topic.) See eg https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/lawreview/articles/volume155/issue6/Farber155U.Pa.L.Rev.1605(2007).pdf