Monat: Mai 2015

Gilbert, Alexander; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2015): Emissions accounting for biomass energy with CCS

Gilbert, Alexander; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2015): Emissions accounting for biomass energy with CCS. In Nature Climate change 5 (6), pp. 495–496. DOI 10.1038/nclimate2633.

„Sanchez et al. provide a viable technological roadmap for using biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in the western United States1. However, they oversimplify emissions accounting by assuming a zero or negative carbon emissions factor.“

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Lomax, Guy; et al. (2015): Investing in negative emissions

Lomax, Guy; Lenton, Timothy M.; Adeosun, Adepeju; Workman, Mark (2015): Investing in negative emissions. In Nature Climate change 5 (6), pp. 498–500. DOI 10.1038/nclimate2627.

„Methods of removing CO2 from the atmosphere add vital flexibility to efforts to tackle climate change. They must be brought into mainstream climate policy as soon as possible to open up the landscape for innovation and development, and to discover which approaches work at scale.“

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Kwiatkowski, Lester; et al. (2015): Coral bleaching under unconventional scenarios of climate warming and ocean acidification

Kwiatkowski, Lester; Cox, Peter; Halloran, Paul R.; Mumby, Peter J.; Wiltshire, Andy J. (2015): Coral bleaching under unconventional scenarios of climate warming and ocean acidification. In Nature Climate change. DOI 10.1038/nclimate2655.

„Here we analyse the potential for geoengineering, through stratospheric aerosol-based solar radiation management (SRM), to reduce the extent of global coral bleaching relative to ambitious climate mitigation. Exploring the common criticism of geoengineering—that ocean acidification and its impacts will continue unabated—we focus on the sensitivity of results to the aragonite saturation state dependence of bleaching.“

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