[geo] Snowpiercer TV Series Has a Mystery | Screen Rant

2017-07-27 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : the original film featured climate engineering, alongside perpetual motion machines and other implausible hokum. It seemed conceptually similar to "High Rise" - a modern classic novel, and recently a film. http://screenrant.com/snowpiercer-season-1-ongoing-mystery/ Snowpiercer

Re: [geo] More on Climeworks

2017-07-27 Thread Hawkins, Dave
Chris Fields' quote about liposuction is apt but it is not a critique of liposuction. Rather, it is a critique of eating huge amounts of dessert with no commensurate effort to burn off the calories. It is absolutely correct to argue that we must not weaken efforts to cut emissions based on

Re: [geo] More on Climeworks

2017-07-27 Thread Klaus Lackner
Look it from the other end. A first of a kind machine collects CO2 at $600 per ton. Compared to the first solar panel this is a steal. It has a much smaller footprint than a forest with the same CO2 collection capacity. And presumably it will get better over time. This is not a CDR scheme,

Re: [geo] Our editorial in Science: How to govern geoengineering?

2017-07-27 Thread Greg Rau
Thanks Janos.  Certainly agree that we need oversight in researching and applying these technologies. My comments:1) I would caution against  lumping CDR in with SRM in the same governance framework – they have very different risk/reward profiles, the reason that the NAS split their discussion

[geo] Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration

2017-07-27 Thread renforthp
Dear list, You may be interested in the paper 'Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration' that has just been published in *Reviews of Geophysics* http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RG000533/abstract All the best, Phil Renforth -- You received this message because you

Re[2]: [geo] Master’s thesis comparing CDR strategies

2017-07-27 Thread Franz Dietrich Oeste
Dear Mark, We support your plan to release a report about CO2 removal options because the sustained greenhouse gas removal is the only option of a successful fight against the climate warming problem. Nonetheless, we want to direct your attention to the ISA method. This method mimics the