Guest Post – Noah Deich, UC Berkeley. „On November 4th, Michael Ashcroft, of the Carbon Trust, and I gave a[nbsp]presentation on the topic of technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere[nbsp]and their implications for industry and government, at the USEA, in Washington, D.C.“
„I just watched the movie „Snowpiercer“ the other night, a film about which I’d read some good reviews, and it was pretty meh. Definitely overrated. But that’s not the point. The point is that it’s based on just about the least realistic premise in the history of cinema. Or is it?“
Blog post on BECCS. „BECCS, which combines bio-energy production (biomass fuel-power stations, pulp mills and bio-fuel plants) with carbon capture and storage technology, has the potential to generate “negative emissions” that could help society avoid exceeding critical thresholds in this century and beyond.“
This study is not on CE, but it is linked to iron fertilzation. „A new study performed by a team of international scientists reveals that a complex ecosystem response to iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean might reduce the efficiency of biological carbon pump in transporting carbon dioxide into the deep ocean.“
„While the serious[nbsp]negotiations around a comprehensive treaty are expected to happen next year at the Paris COP meetings, negotiations in Lima will nevertheless be important to[nbsp]narrow down exactly what will be on the table in Paris, and to build[nbsp]trust among negotiators for next year’s session. Given this, what role might carbon dioxide removal (“CDR”) techniques play in the Lima negotiations?“
German newspaper article on David Keith and latest ideas of testing CE.
Press review on responses to findings from British IAGP project.
Craik, Neil; Moore, Nigel (2014): Disclosure-based Governance for Climate Engineering Research (CIGI Papers, 50).
„The objective of this paper is to focus attention on two distinct roles that disclosure-based governance is anticipated to play: minimization of the potential for environmental and social concerns associated with CE research; and to generate and maintain legitimacy in the research process itself.“
Cairns, Rose (2014): Climates of suspicion: ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering. In The Geographical Journal, pp. n/a. DOI 10.1111/geoj.12116.
„This paper builds on work highlighting the instability of the distinction between ‘paranoid’ and ‘normal’ views, and examines the chemtrail conspiracy narrative as a discourse rather than a pathology (either psychological or sociological).“
German newspaper article on iron fertilization.
