IISD: Climate Change and Geoengineering: Ocean Fertilization Practicalities, Opportunities and Threats
Guest article by Wendy Watson-Writght (Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceographic Commission) on ocen fertilization.
CO2-removal News
CfP: North American Biochar Symposium
04.03.2012, deadline for abstracts
„Established in 2006, the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative is a group of farmers, foresters, professors, students and concerned citizens, promoting public awareness that a growing body of soil science affirms that biochar can increase soil productivity and enhance crop health when incorporated into farm, forest and garden soils.“
Rayfuse, Rosemary; Warner, Robin (2012): Climate change mitigation activities in the ocean: turning up the regulatory heat
Rayfuse, Rosemary; Warner, Robin (2012): Climate change mitigation activities in the ocean: turning up the regulatory heat. In: Robin Warner und Clive Schofield (Hg.): Climate change and the oceans. Gauging the legal and policy currents in the Asia Pacific and beyond. Cheltenham: Elgar, pp. 234–262. ISBN 9781848448186
About possibilities of ocean fertilization.
Link (Google books)
Oceanus: Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron
A review of iron fertilization by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. „Should we add iron to the sea to help reduce greenhouse gases in the air?“
Bienhold, Christina; et al. (2013): How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sustain Chemosynthetic Life
Bienhold, Christina; Pop Ristova, Petra; Wenzhöfer, Frank; Dittmar, Thorsten; Boetius, Antje; Kirchman, David L. (2013): How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sustain Chemosynthetic Life. In: PLoS ONE 8 (1), e53590. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0053590
Fertilizing the ocean with wood logs. „Here we investigated the biogeochemical and microbiological processes leading to the development of sulfidic niches by deploying wood colonization experiments at a depth of 1690 m in the Eastern Mediterranean for one year.“
Talk/Lecture: Climate engineering as one of the far-out aspects of Earth systems science
04.02.2013, Mainz/Germany
Lecture by Mark Lawrence (IASS, Potsdam) in a lecture series Earth System Cycles
Talk/Lecture: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Policy Initiatives
31.01.2013, Carleton University
Speaker Series – Exploring Negative Territory: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Policy Initiatives
Rayner, Steve; et al. (2013): The Oxford Principles
Rayner, Steve; Heyward, Clare; Kruger, Tim; Pidgeon, Nick; Redgwell, Catherine; Savulescu, Julian (2013): The Oxford Principles. In: Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0675-2
The Oxford Principles as an online publication in Climatic Change.
Herald-Tribune: About that risk analysis …
Comment on the risk analysis in the World Economic Forum report.