„I had the pleasure of attending Carbon Engineering’s pilot plant opening on Friday, October 9 in Squamish, British Columbia. Founded in 2009, Carbon Engineering is one of the pioneering companies that is seeking to disrupt the status quo by sourcing carbon dioxide (CO2) from air.“
„Oliver Morton has written a great book about geoengineering, and that is no small achievement. Say that word aloud—“geoengineering”—and it sounds wonky and remote. But there is a good chance that “geoengineering” will soon be on the lips of every politician on this planet.“
German newspaper article on the UNEP report and possible CE alternatives.
Biofuelwatch (2015): Smoke and Mirrors. Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Policy briefing.
„However, while BECCS might pose a major threat to biodiversity in theory, there is virtually no possibility of large-scale BECCS application because the technologies are technically and economically unviable. The real threats posed by promotion of BECCS are ongoing distraction from the urgent necessity of a rapid phase out of fossil fuel burning and ecosystem and biodiversity destruction, and the distraction of attention away from genuine and credible ways of sequestering carbon: agroecology and ecosystem regeneration.“
„But there’s another way to tackle the problem: Remove carbon from the air. That was the topic of a provocative session at VERGE 2015 in San Jose last week at which Noah Deich, founder of a non-profit business incubator called the Center for Carbon Removal, discussed the concept with several scientists and entrepreneurs working on in the field.“
„Off-take agreement with Vinmar is a milestone for carbon capture efforts and meeting the growing needs of the sustainable materials market“
„Geoengineering ignores a message to which the medical profession has long adhered, and which seems quite relevant in this case: “First, do no harm.” In a complex adaptive system, it is almost certain that unintended consequences will result from the application of any technological fix, and the evidence suggests that these consequences will be devastating for many; we simply do not have the control over the climate that techno-optimists would like to believe we have.“
Jones, A. C.; Haywood, J. M.; Jones, A. (2015): Climatic impacts of stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate, black carbon and titania injection. In Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 15 (21), pp.[nbsp]30043–30079. DOI: 10.5194/acpd-15-30043-2015
„In this paper, we examine the potential climatic effects of geoengineering by sulfate, black carbon and titania injection against a baseline RCP8.5 scenario. We use the HadGEM2-CCS model to simulate scenarios in which the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative imbalance due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations is offset by sufficient aerosol injection throughout the 2020–2100 period. We find that the global-mean temperature is effectively maintained at historical levels for the entirety of the period for all 3 aerosol-injection scenarios, though there are a wide range of side-effects which are discussed in detail.„
Djojodihardjo, Harijono (2015): Climate change creativity for cirrus clouds and contrails control. In : International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace). Langkawi, Malaysia, pp.[nbsp]503–508.
„Cirrus ice clouds formed normally in the upper troposphere and contrails, shed by aircraft, impact climate and global warming due to prevailing cirrus clouds ice water content and crystal size. Contrail cirrus impact on climate change also comprises their influence on water vapor in the higher troposphere layer, which alter the infrared heat emission. The effect of commercial flights to climate change is of serious concern to the environmental conservation and climate change mitigation efforts. Therefore, it is imperative that the physical characteristics of cirrus clouds, contrails and their interactions be understood to devise anthropogenic solutions.“
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