Bossio, D. A., S. C. Cook-Patton, P. W. Ellis, J. Fargione, J. Sanderman, P. Smith, S. Wood, et al. 2020. “The Role of Soil Carbon in Natural Climate Solutions.”[nbsp]Nature Sustainability, March. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0491-z.
”Here we quantify the role of soil carbon in natural (land-based) climate solutions and review some of the project design mechanisms available to tap into the potential.”
Low, Sean, and Holly Jean Buck. 2020. “The Practice of Responsible Research and Innovation in ‘Climate Engineering.’”[nbsp]Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, March, e644. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.644.
”In this review, we first survey how RRI thinking has already been applied to both carbon removal and sunlight reflection methods for climate intervention. We examine how RRI is employed in four types of activities: Assessment processes and reports, principles and protocols for research governance, critical mappings of research, and deliberative and futuring engagements.”
Irvine, Peter J, and David W Keith. 2020. “Halving Warming with Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Moderates Policy-Relevant Climate Hazards.”[nbsp]Environmental Research Letters[nbsp]15 (4): 044011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab76de.
“In prior work it was found that halving warming with an idealized solar constant reduction would substantially reduce climate change overall, exacerbating change in a small fraction of places. Here, we test if this result holds for a more realistic representation of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering using the data from the geoengineering large ensemble (GLENS).”
The following events from the CE News Calendar have been rescheduled or cancelled due to COVID-19 (state of week 14 of 2020):
“These are some of the more extreme approaches to the climate crisis that fall under the category of geoengineering. Journalist Thomas[nbsp]Kostigen joins us to chat about what’s real and what’s practical.”
“Mention the term “geoengineering” and you could start an argument.[nbsp] Because the idea of changing how the planet and its weather works often wanders into the contrail/”chemtrail” debate.”
“This is an excerpt from[nbsp]”Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future”[nbsp]by Thomas Kostigen.“
“A new paper in[nbsp]Nature Sustainability—written by 13 academics and nonprofit organization leaders, including UCLA experts in science, law and[nbsp]public policy—evaluates the effectiveness of such measures and recommends a framework for evaluating them.”
“Scientists have shown that mineral carbonation can permanently capture and store carbon quickly enough and safely enough to rise to the challenge of climate change.”
“Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term joint field study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Michigan State University (MSU).”
