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If you’re itching for a new example of, “this sounds great, but…”, then I’ve got a real winner we can ponder, as described in the article, Carbon dioxide super-scubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.: Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the . . . → Read More: Scrubbing CO2  Comments are closed  Climate change, Coal, Geoengineering, Natural gas, Oil, Public policy, Uncategorized Ah yes, another article on geo-engineering, which I still contend is much more accurately described as geo-hacking; calling that level of experimentation based on so little (currently: no) experience is a lot of thing, but “engineering” it most certainly is not. So, let me try something a bit unusual for this site, and give you just the . . . → Read More: Geo-hacking primer The climate blogosphere erupted yesterday with the news that Bjorn Lomborg has a new book coming out that seems to reverse his bottom-line conclusion on climate change. While I haven’t read the new book, I think a fair summary of his pre- and post-pivot positions would be: Pre-pivot: Climate change is real but it’s not a . . . → Read More: The Lomborg Pivot One can only imagine what Jacques Cousteau, who in some ways was the oceanic version of Carl Sagan before Sagan was a household name, would have to say about the news ricocheting around the blogosphere about the paper just published in Nature, Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. The paper’s abstract (emphasis added): In the . . . → Read More: The plankton are dying The other day I tossed out a bunch of links with no commentary. One of them was to an Andy Revkin piece on dot Earth, The Coal Age Continues, and it deserves a lot more attention: Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on Thursday, Gregory Boyce, the chairman and chief executive officer of the world’s biggest coal . . . → Read More: Welcome to our coal-fired future It seems that I’m far from the only person who has, shall we say, pointed reservations about geohacking. Specifically, I’m referring to HOME (Hands Off Mother Earth), a group that describes itself on its web site this way: Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E) is a global campaign to defend our one precious home, Planet Earth, against . . . → Read More: Phoning HOME on geohacking I’ve been thinking a lot about “inescapable conclusions” lately, the answers to certain big questions that will almost certainly prove to be true in the coming years and decades. Some of these questions and answers are topics that I and other bloggers and people commenting on blogs have mentioned many times before and are . . . → Read More: Dancing with the devil known as geohacking Consider the article and document linked below as yet another indication, albeit a minor one, that we’ve painted ourselves into a very tight, nasty corner. Our remaining options for dealing with climate change, peak oil, water issues, and every other facet of sustainability increasingly seem to be limited to escaping our mess by [1] busting . . . → Read More: Birth control vs. geohacking A Hard Look at the Perils and Potential of Geoengineering by Jeff Goodell: In the beginning, I had my doubts. The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, held last week at the Asilomar conference grounds near Monterey, Calif., was touted as an “unprecedented” gathering of 175 scientists, environmental groups, philosophers, and public policy wonks to discuss . . . → Read More: Jeff Goodell’s take on the Asilomar geoengineering conference Do you hear the latest news about geoengineering proposals and wonder if you tripped and fell through the looking glass? I do. Adding to the vertigo is an article from New Scientist that asks, Hacking the planet: who decides?: Proposals to cool the Earth by deploying sunshades or sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere were . . . → Read More: Geohacking: Who’s in charge? |
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